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Proceedings 



of the 



.iayor's Advisory War Board 

City of Cleveland 

(Harry L. Davis, Mayor) 



From October 1, 1917, to 

December 31, 1917, with Record of 

Expenditures of Its Various 

Activities 



Mayor's Advisory War Committee 

226 City Hall 

Myron T. Herrick, Chairman F. H. Goff, Treasurer 

Warren S. Hayden, Secretary Sam B. Anson, Executive Secretary 



0« of B. 
^^lAR 27 1918 



INDEX 

Page 

A. & W. Electric Sign Co 125 

Abbott, Frank E. . ; 213 

Adams, Chas. E 137, 138, 160, 168, 178, 180, 195, 196, 198, 199, 209 

Adams, E. E 211, 213 

Advertisers' Matrix Co 177, 185 

Agoston, Paul 213 

Akins, George 131, 164 

Alba Water Co 131, 164 

Albright, Charles 211 

Alexander, Hugh 127, 170, 177, 181, 183 

Alumni of Western Reserve 143 

America First Campaign 141, 142, 143, 144, 182 

American Farm Reserve 184 

American Forestry 148 

American Multigraph Sales Co 127 

American Printing Co 132, 162 

American Protective League 195 

American Protective League, Expenditures 127, 131, 136, 161, 169 

175, 181, 188, 196, 202 

American Protective League, Expenditures Itemized 162, 182, 204 

Americanization 124, 125 

Americanization Classes 144 

Americanization Committee, Expendituies 127, 131, 136, 161, 169, 175 

181, 188, 196, 202 

Americanization Committee, Expenditures Itemized 162, 182, 204, 205 

Americanization Information Bureau 124, 141, 142, 143 

Americanization, Sub-committee on 123, 125, 130, 137, 159, 160, 168, 201, 210 

Andrews, Mathew 211 

Annaci Toe 171 

Anson, Sam B 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 130, 132, 135, 140 

141, 153, 157, 158, 160, 161, 163, 169, 176 

180, 181, 184, 194, 196, 201, 202 

203, 205, 209 

Antel, Myron J. (in service) 130, 159 

Appointment of Dr. R. H. Bishop 203 

Appropriation, Americanization Sub-committee 124 

Appropriation, Central Draft Board 201 

Appropriation, Soldiers' Pajamas 200 

Appropriation, Women's Activities 129 

Artcraft Company 132, 162, 176, 182 

Art Engraving & Colortype Company 177, 184 

Association of College Alumni 143 

Attorneys for Legal Aid Society 189 

Audit of Executive Committee's Financial Report 196 

Avellane, H. C 136. 164 

Bacon, Helen 127, 132, 143, 144, 161, 162, 176, 181, 182, 202, 204, 210, 211 

Baker, E. H 209 

Baker Mrs. E. H 211 

Baker, Edward M 211 

Baker, Newton D 139, 175, 201 

Baldwin, A. D 211 

Barkley, J. W 213 

Barron, Mrs. Amos 212 

Bartholomew, Leeper & McGill 1 89 

Bartunek, C. J 132, 163 

Bast, Paul J 127 

Battles, M. E 171, 172, 178 

Beardsley, J. C 176, 185 

Beebe & Son 131, 162 

Bell, Constance 211, 144 

Bellamy, George A 213 

Benefit Theatrical Performance 179 

Benkoski, C. J 211 

Bernreiter, W. Karl 209 

Bingham, Mrs. H. P 213 

Bishop, Dr. R. H., Jr 178, 184, 194, 195, 199, 203, 205, 212 

Bishop, Dr. R. H., Jr., Appointment of 203 

Black, The H. Co 144 

Black, Mrs. Morris 211 

Black & White Taxicab Co 132, 162 

Blattner, Hazel 127, 132, 161, 164, 176, 181, 185, 202, 206 

Board of Education 137, 159 

Bole, Captain Ben P 209,210 

Bologna, Carl 132, 163, 169, 177, 181, 183 

Bolton, Captain C. C 210 

Bond, Major Paul S 210 

Bourne, B. F 214 

Boyd, W. H 211 

Boyle, Mrs. W. C 211 

Bradley, Alva 134. 212 

Brewster, Mrs. Alfred 212 



Brick, Irma 205 

British Labor Administration 133 

British Recruiting Mission 125 

Britton Printing Company 197, 206 

Brooks Company 132, 162, 176, 177, 182, 197, 202, 204 

Brown Bros 147 

Bryan, C. F 134 

Bryan Company, The 177, 185 

Bryant's Weeklies 206 

Budget, Americanization 123 

Budget, Cuyahoga County Food Conservation Campaign 138 

Budget, Cuyahoga County Food Administration 179, 180, 199 

Budget, English Classes in Parochial Schools 134 

Budget, War Garden Committee 146, 149 

Budget, Women's Activities 129 

Bulkley, R. J 210, 211 

Bunts, Dr. F. E 210 

Bureau of Markets 183 

Bureau of Navigation 190 

Burke, Mrs. E. S 209, 212 

Burns, Allen T 125, 135, 146, 153, 210, 211, 213 

Burrows Bros. Co 131, 132, 162, 164, 165, 175, 176, 182 

185, 186, 187, 196, 204, 206, 207 

Burrows, Gladys 212 

Bushnell, Edward 209, 210 

Buss, Dorothy 181, 183, 205 

C, C, C. & St. Louis R. R. Co 176, 184 

Cadwallader, Starr 146, 147, 201, 210 

Cahill, Vida 127 

Caley, Fred H 209 

Camp Deven, Cleveland Soldiers 179 

Camp Pike, Cleveland Soldiers 179, 192 

Camp Sheridan, Cleveland Soldiers' Activities, Montgomery 190, 191, 192, 199 

Camp Sherman, Cleveland Soldiers' Activities, Chillicothe 139 

Campanella, Vincent 209, 211 

Carlton Music Co 164, 165 

Carnegie Library 144 

Carter, L. E 181, 182, 204 

Castle, A. W 134, 137, 141, 143, 168, 210 

Catholic Universe Publishing Co 197, 206 

Caxton Company, The 177, 185 

Central Committee on Public Health and Nursing 176, 187 

Central Friendly Inn 144 

Central Tire Shop 131, 163 

Chagrin Falls Exponent 177, 185 

Chaloupka, A. W 176, 181, 182, 204 

Chamber of Commerce, Cleveland 133, 137, 141, 174, 175, 177, 184, 189, 193, 202 

Chamber of Commerce, Cincinnati 173 

Chamber of Commerce, Montgomery 134, 160 

Chamber of Commerce Club 177, 184 

Chandler, L. L 131, 164 

Charvat, Rose 204 

Checks Cancelled 128 

Chesnutt, Charles W 170, 185, 196, 208, 209, 213 

Christmas Fund for Soldiers, Montgomery 179 

Clark, Harold T 123, 124, 125, 130, 141, 159, 168, 174, 201, 210 

Clark, Mrs. Harold T 211 

Clarke, W. C 127, 132, 163, 169, 177, 181, 183 

Cleveland Builders' Supply Co 147 

Cleveland Company 131, 165, 170, 175, 184, 185, 202, 207 

Cleveland Desk Co 132, 162, 175, 176, 182, 185, 204, 206 

Cleveland Directory Co 175, 185 

Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co 187 

Cleveland Federation of Labor 133 

Cleveland Grays Co 176, 186 

Cleveland Laundry Co 134, 131 

Cleveland Market News Service, The 133 

Cleveland Motor Plow Co 147, 171, 172. 173 

Cleveland News 175, 176, 177, 184, 186, 187, 196, 207, 208 

Cleveland Press 131, 165, 177, 185, 196, 207, 208 

Cleveland Soldier The 133 

Cleveland Taxicab Co 202, 207 

Cleveland Telephone Co 131, 132, 164, 165, 175, 176, 182, 186, 187, 162 

Cleveland Topics Co 177, 184 

Cleveland Tractor Co. (War Garden Work) 175, 178, 183, 192 

Cleveland Union Stock Yard Co 207 

Cleveland W. G. & D. Co 204 

Cole. Lawrence C 127, 132, 161, 162, 170, 176, 181, 182. 202, 204 

Cole, Raymond E 127, 132, 161, 162 

College Club 143 

Collins, W. H 127, 131, 163 

Colors for 330th and 331st Regiment, Chillicothe 126, 175 

Columbus Barracks, Report on 200, 201, 206 

Committee, List of General 209 

Committee, List of Sub- 210 



Conkey, Vincent A 205 

Connors, Anna 127, 132, 161, 166, 176, 181, 187, 202, 208 

Conservation Mass Meeting 130 

Conservation Week 158 

Consumer's League 133 

Conway, Jack 205 

Costello's Band 131, 164 

Couch, Hazel M 206, 207 

Coughlin, Thomas 211 

Coulton, George A 212, 214 

Council of National Defense 133 

County Draft Board, Salaries 174, 201 

County Draft Board, Expenditures 127, 131, 136, 161, 169, 175 

181, 188, 196, 202 

County Draft Board, Expenditures Intemized 163, 183, 205 

County Food Commissioner, Dunham 126, 130, 171, 172, 173, 178, 188, 193 

County Food Commissioner, Expenditures 127, 131, 136, 161, 169, 175, 181 

188, 196, 202, 205 

County Food Commissioner, Expenditures Itemized 163, 183, 184 

Cowdery, R. H 146, 147, 210 

Cowgill, C. A 161, 162, 176, 181, 182, 202, 204 

Cox, Gov. James M 178, 201 

Crackel, M. D : 213 

Crane Lithograph Co 177, 185 

Crider, J. S 214 

Crile, Dr. George W 209 

Crowell, Benedict 175, 200, 201 

Crowell, Robert 213 

Croxton, Fred C 179, 180, 194, 195, 199, 203 

Croxton, Fred C, Appointment of 203 

Cummer, Karl 202 

Cummer, R. H 204 

Cunningham, John F 212 

Cusack, Thos. Co 125, 134, 177, 184 

Cutler, Prof. J. E 130, 160, 210, 213 

Cuyahoga County Food Administration — Sub-committee on 179, 180, 193, 194 

195, 199, 212 

Cuyahoga County Food Administration, Report on 193, 194, 195, 196, 199, 203 

Cuyahoga County Food Conservation, Sub-committee on 138, 193, 194, 195, 212 

Cuyahoga County Food Conservation Committee, Expenditures 188, 205 

Cuyahoga Lumber Company 176, 182, 197, 202, 204 

Darling, Perry J 146, 147, 209, 210, 214 

Daughters of American Revolution 129, 138, 139, 160, 168, 171, 174 

Davis, Mayor Harry L 123, 125, 129, 133, 146, 171, 173, 174, 175 

189, 190, 192, 195, 198, 199, 203, 209, 212 

Davis-Hunt-Collister Co 131, 162 

Dehm, Charles, Hauling 177, 184, 202, 205, 207 

Dempster, Charles 127, 132, 163, 169, 177, 181, 183, 205 

Department of Educational Extension 168 

Derr, Mrs. E. G 212 

DeWoody, Charles ' 194 

Dieger, R 164, 165 

Diemer, Mrs. Allen 212 

Dingman, Anna P 211 

Disbro, C. W 158 

Distribution of Expendituers 127, 131, 132, 136, 161, 169, 170 

175, 176, 177, 181, 196, 197, 202 

District Board on Drafted Men 145 

Dluzynski, Theo. M 209 

Dorn, F. Philip 209 

Dorn, Otto K 210 

Doyle & Waltz Printing Co 177, 184, 196, 197, 206, 207 

Drake, Grace B 210, 211 

Dular, Joseph 176, 187 

Dunham, Food Commissioner, L. B 125, 130, 171, 172, 173, 178, 188, 193, 212 

Dunham, Food Commissioner, Resignation of 178 

Dunn, Mrs. Louise 213 

Dunn, James 160 

East End Neighborhood House 144 

East Ohio Gas Co 176, 185, 196, 207 

Eclipse Electrotype Co 131, 132, 162, 164, 165, 175, 176, 182, 186 

Edelstein, M 132, 164, 196, 206 

Eells, H. P 213 

Emergency Fund, Soldiers at Camp Sheridan 200 

Empire Plow Co 147 

Endorsement Committee, Report on 153 

Endorsement, Sub-committee on 153, 190, 195, 211 

Engelhorn, Wesley 213 

English Classes, Parochial Schools 137 

English Classes for Women 144 

English Compulsory Legislation 125 

English Evening Classes 134 

Erner Electric Co 196, 197, 202, 204, 206 

Ernst & Ernst 178 

Excelsior Stamp Works 131, 165, 176, 187, 196, 206 



Executive Committee 146, 149, 150, 190, 199, 209 

Executive Committee, Expenditures 127, 131, 133, 136, 161, 169 

. ^ . 175, 181, 188, 196, 202 

iwcecutive Committee, Expenditures Itemized 163, 184, 205 

Executive Committee, Meetings of 123, 129, 133, 137, 159, 168, 171, 178 

189, 190, 195, 199, 203 

Executive Secretary 123, 124, 125, 126, 130, 135, 140 

141, 160, 168, 169, 175, 178, 180 

. ^ 189, 190, 193, 195, 196, 201 

h-xecutive Secretary, Report on Cuyahoga County Food Commission 

_.,.,.. 171, 172, 173, 178, 179, 192, 193 

Exhibition Building, Montgomery 173 

Expenditures, Itemized 162, 182, 183, 204,' 205, 206," 2'o'7, 208 

Expenditures, Report by Executive Secretary 157, I5g 

Feder, Rosalia ' ' 205 

Fairfax, John V. '.'.'.'.'.'. ■.■.■.■.■.■.■.■.".■.■.iVo, 185 

rarley. Cardinal 190 

Farrell, Thomas S ', .!!!.!.!!.!!!! 133 

Farrelly, Bishop John P ....!..... 190 209 1 52 

Fay, Mrs. W. A ' 212 

Feiss, Paul L 123, 124, 129,' 133," '137," I'SS, 152," "l'5'3, 159 

160, 168, 178, 180, 189, 190, 192, 194, 195 
^ . , 196, 198, 199, 200, 201, 203, 209, 213 

r ems, Mabel 213 

Fertig, Frank J 211 

Fisher, M. F ' ona oi o 

FitzGerald, W. S ..■.■.■."..■.■.■.■.■.'.■.'.'.'.'.';.■.'.'.'.'. 134 

Fitzpatrick, Clarence J iVs, 1 26 

Fleming, Mrs. James Neil 141, 142, 143! 146, 210, 211,' 212 

Food Administration Committee, Expenditures 202 

Food Commissioner Dunham, Resignation of 178 

Food Conservation Campaign 1 34 151 

Food Conservation Committee, Expenditures 127, 129, 161, 169, 175, 181,' 196 

Food Conservation Committee, Expenditures Itemized 163, 184, 185, 206 

Food Conservation Week 138 194 

Food Supply Conservation, Campaign on ISO 

Food Lectures (Women's Campaign) 151 

Food Pledge Campaign ".'. . . . ..151^ I'si, 193, 194 

Forman-Bassett Company 131, 163, 175, 185 

Foster, George 131^ 164 

Fostick, Raymond B I39 

Four Minute Men's Organization 150 

Fowles & Engle 206 

Frieberger, I. F ...'.'.'..'.'.'.'. 210 

Friedman, Eleanor .■.'.. 127,' "l'6*9", " 177,' "I's'l, 186 

Fryer, Mrs. Julius B 212 

Fryman, Ruth 12'8, 132, 161, 162 

Fuel Supply, Sub-committee on 211 

Fuller, Fred R 211 

Fuller & Smith 177, i85, 197, 206 

Fullerton, Hugh M 2IO 

Garfield, Abram 213 

Gebauer, Chas 209 

General Committee Meeting 141 

General Office Expenditures 127, 129, 131, 136, 161, 169, 175, 181, 188, 196, 202 

General Office Expenditures Itemieed 163, 164, 185, 206 

Gerard, James W. (Ambassador) 139 

Gibbons, Hannah 205 

Gilman Printing Co 175, 186 

Gilson, Mary 211 

Glass, Sarah .'.'..' .' ' 127, 132, 162 

Glenn, Edith 211 

Glenn, Major General E. F 139, 160 

Goff. F. H 123, 129, 167, 171, 173, 178, 188, 196, 199, 203, 209 

Goff. Mrs. F. H 213 

Goff, H. L ; 210 

Gordon, Spencer R 139 

Grant, C. J. C 127, 132, 163, 170, 177, 181, 183 

Grasselli, E. R 209, 214 

Grasselli, T. S 210 

Gray Lumber Co 131, 136, 162, 164 

Great Lakes Band 189 

Greek Church 144 

Greene, E. B 171, 175, 210 

Greenlund, W. A 129, 137, 178, 189, 190, 192, 195, 198, 199, 200, 203, 209 

Gries, Mrs. Moses J 212 

Griffiths, Edward S 209 

Gross, John Kayganovich 209 

Gross, S. M 209 

Hall, A. T 171, 172, 184 

Hall, Colonel 192 

Hall & Higgins 131, 163 

Halter Sign Co 177, 184, 197, 208 

Hamann, Mrs. C. A 190 

Hanna, Howard M 212 



Hanna, L. C, Jr 210, 213 

Harburger, R 213 

Hard, Colonel Dudley J '.'.'.'. 210 

Harmon, Frank S 133,' "209, 212 

Harris, Edward L 210 

Harris, Mrs. Edward L 129, 138 171 

Harris, George B ' 2OI 

Harris Printing Co 131, 164, 165, 176, 177, 182, 184, 196, 197, 'ioi, "2O6 208 

Hart, E. J 213 

Hart, J. Wayne 133, 179, 180, 193, 194, 195, 199, 212 

Hart, J. Wayne, Resignation of 203 

Hart, Salem A " 209 

Harvey, A. F [[ 211 

Harvey, Perry W 153, 196,' 'iVs, 211 

Haserodt, Mrs. E. B 211, 213 

Havens, Munson 129, 133, 209! 212 

Hayden, Warren S 123, 129, 130, 133, 153, 159, 171, 196, 198, 199, 209, 214 

Hayden, Warren S., Speech on Liberty Loan 153, 154, 155, 155' 157 

Hayes, Max S 214 

Hebberd, John B I3O, 134, 135. 173 

Heiser Co 131, 165, 175, 176, 184, 185, 186, 197, 206 

Helman, Mrs. Max 127 

Hermann, Dr. C. A 209 

Herrick, Myron T 123, 126, 129, 130. 133, 137, 141, 153,' 1 58, 171 

178, 179, 189, 195, 199, 203, 209 

Hiatt, Ella B 128, 132, 161, 162, 176, 181, 182, 202, 204 

Hieber, A. J 211 

Hiles, Coggshall Co 131, 164, 165, 175, 176, 182, 186, 187, 196, 197 

204, 206, 207, 208 

Hill, A. S. L 205 

Hill, Parker 210 

Hippodrome, Meeting July 4, 1917 ' 123 

Hirstius, A. J Vl32. 163 

Hitchcock, Lawrence 213 

Hlas Slovak Daily News I77, 184 

Hobart, Mrs. A. S ' 212 

Hoddinott, R. J . ' ' 2IO 

Holding, Samuel H 209 

Hollenbach, Frank B iW, 186 

Home Garden ' 147 

Home Guard, Organization of 201 

Honeywell, L. E 211 

Hood, A. H 127. 132, 161, 164, 171, 176, 181, 185, 192," '202 206 

Hoover, Herbert 125, 126, 130, 134, 139, 140, 158, 193 

Hope, C. R 189, 190 

Hopwood, Erie C I79 

Hornyak, Barbara 127, 132, 161, 162, 176, 181, 182," 202, 204 

Hospital Appropriation, Camp Sheridan 192 

Hostess House, D. A. R 129, 138, 139, 160, 168, 171 

Hotchkiss, E. A 210 

Hough, Colonel 159 

House, J. A .210, 212 

Household Auction & Storage Co 176, 182 

Houston, David F 130^ 134 

Housum, B. W ' 212 

How War Came to America, Campaign on ISO 

Howland, Paul 209 

Hruby, Mrs. Eva 176, 181, 182, 204 

Hubbell Printing Co 132, 162 

Humphrey, D. S 212, 213 

Industrial Americanization, Pamphlet on 142 

Ingersoll, Kenneth 184 

International Harvester Co 172, 173 

International Institute, Y. W. C. A ' 144 

Ireland, Mrs. R. L ,'..', 213 

Irwin, Fred 127, 132, 164, 1 65 

Italian Publishing Co 197, 206 

Ives Co., L. R 132, 162, 176^ 182 

Jackson, G. A 164, 165 

Jackson, J. A 170, 185 

Jackson's Military Band 170, 185 

Jacoby , Mrs. Stella 211 

Jeffrey, E 131, 164 

Jenkins, Mrs. A. J 127, 132. 163. 169, 177, 181, 183 

Jewish Daily News 177, 184 

Jewish Independent, The 177, 184 

Jewish Review & Observer 177, 184 

Jewish World 177, 18S 

Johnson. Colonel 200, 201 

Jones, Myrta L 133, 213 

Joseph, Emil 213 

Joseph, Ernest A 210, 213 

Joseph & Feiss Co 1 44 

Kane, Rev. William A 210 

Keeler, Harriet 211 



Keeling, W. H 127, 132, 163, 169, 177, 181, 183, 205 

Keenan, E. D 189, 190 

Kendal, C. E 146, 147, 210 

Kenyon, Dr. H. C 209 

Kerr, J. A 212 

Kiefer, Henry -^i^ 

Kiltie Band, God Speed Day 164, 165 

Kingsley, Sherman C 153, 209, 211, 213 

Kingsley Paper Co 132, 162 

Kirk's Band 164 

Kittridge, L. H 213 

Kling, John A 214 

Kluger Optical Co 196, 207 

Klumph, A. C 170, 182, 194, 209 

Knights of Columbus Campaign 160 

Knirk C F 127, 132, 138, 146, 147, 161, 165, 169, 171 

172, 176, 179, 181, 186, 192, 202, 207, 210 

Koch, R. H 200 

Koosed, L. E 127 

Korman, H 131, 132, 162, 163, 165, 175, 185, 196, 206 

Kosbab, A. F 168 

Kundtz, Theodor 209, 214 

Labor Employees, Sub-committee on 213 

Laffer, Mrs. W. B 212, 213 

Lakewood Press ^l'^' '^o'^ 

Lawrence Publishing Co., The 177, 184 

LeBlond, Rev. Hubert J 210 

Lecture at Statler Hotel, Sister O'Kavanagh 190 

Ledbetter, Mrs. E. E : 211 

Lee, Marion 202,206 

Lee, W. G 214 

Leech, W. P 209 

Leopold, August F 209 

Letter to Executive Secretary from Red Cross War Council 169 

Letter of Commendation, Hoover 180 

Letter Specialty Co 175, 183 

Levine, Judge Manuel 210, 211 

Levinson, William 127 

Lewis, Robert E. (Y. M. C. A.) 160, 209 

Lewis, T. L 213 

Liberty Loan, first campaign 130, 133, 150 

Liberty Loan, second campaign 126, 133, 139, 143, 150 

Liberty Loan, Sub-committee on 145, 150, 151 

Liberty Loan Parade 145 

Lichliter, Rev. M. H 213 

Long, R. D 212 

Longwood School 144 

Lyttle, Bertelle 213 

Maclennan, Mrs. John D 213 

Manak, Frank C 211 

Maresh, A. L 209 

Market Regulations, Sub-committee on 133 

Marks, J C 139, 161, 165, 176, 181, 186, 202, 207, 211, 212 

Marshall, George 125, 133, 153, 212 

Martin , Alexander H 211 

Martin Barris Co 131. 162 

Mason, Mrs. J. W 211 

Masten's Band 131, 164 

Mather, Amasa Stone • ■ " ^? 

Mather, Livingston 212, 213 

Mather, Samuel 169, 214 

Mather, W. G 209, 214 

Mathews, May 205 

May Company 206 

IM^flv's Drufif Store i-jD 

Mayor's Advisory War Committee 124, 125, 126, 133, 134, 137, 138, 139 

142, 144, 146, 148, 159, 168, 173, 175 

190, 195, 198, 199, 203, 209 

McAdoo, Mrs. Mattie A 168 

McAdoo, W. G 150 

McBride, J. H 14 

McBride Lecture Foundation of W. R. U 141 

McBride, Malcolm L 213 

McBride, Mrs. Malcolm L ;;;•■;;;• ;Vn' '^^^ ' '/o'l ,i? 

McCallig K 136, 165, 169, 177, 181, 186 

McElhaney, J. " A. ' '. 131, 164 

McHugh, P. A 196, 207 

Mcintosh, H. P., Jr 209, 214 

McKinney, Price ^14 

McMichael, Stanley L • • • 211 

McQuiggg, Col. J. R 210, 2 1 

Mears, Chas. W ^11 

Meeting on Americanization • VX' ' "J " ' ' V„ .5 

Meeting of Executive Committee 123, 129, 133, 137, 159, 168, 171, 178, 189 

190, 195, 199, 203 



Meeting, General Mayor's Advisory War Committee 141 

Meldrum, Dr. A. B 152, 209 

Members at Large 213 

Memorandum Telephone Canvass 198 

Merchants Toilet & Supply Co 176, 182, 202, 204 

Mercier, Cardinal 190 

Mesker, George J 131, 132, 164, 186 

Metcalf, C. S 127, 128, 132, 136, 161, 170, 173, 176, 177, 181, 197, 202 

Metzger, Major J. J 131, 164, 176 185 

Metzger Sign Company 176, 186 

Military Affairs, Sub-committee on .126, 130, 159, 171, 175, 189, 190, 200, 210 

Military Committee, Expenditures 127, 131, 136, 161, 169, 175 

181, 188, 196, 202, 207 

Military Committee, Expenditures Itemized 164, 185, 186, 207 

Military Affairs Committee, Report on 145 

Miller, E. S 181, 182, 204 

Miller, Mrs. E. C. T 146, 210 

Miller, Otto (in Service) 123, 129, 209 

Miller, R. G 211 

Miller, William 205 

Miscellaneous Expense 127, 128 

M. M. Protective Association 131, 164 

Moley, Prof. Raymond 130, 141, 160, 210 

Monks, Thomas E 214 

Montgomery, M 205 

Mook, DeLo 210 

Mooney, M. P 123, 124, 133, 134, 137, 160, 168, 189, 190, 195, 198, 199, 203, 209 

Moran, Rev. Francis T 213 

Morison, F. R 211 

Morley, John E 210 

Mount & Co 131, 163 

Mountcastle, M 131, 164 

Mudge, Captain 185 

Mudge, F. T 131, 164 

Mulhauser, Mrs. Frank A 211, 212 

Multipost Company 206 

Murphy, Grace G 128, 132, 161, 162, 176, 181, 182, 202, 204 

Myers, John B 205 

National Advertising Co 206 

Nation in Arms, Campaign on 150 

National Dairy Show, Columbus 130, 140 

National Emergency Food Garden Commission 148 

National Food Administration '. 133 

National Army Football Game 175 

National Guard Troops 145 

Navy Department 190 

Navy Recruiting Station 189 

Neale, E. E 210 

Neighborhood War Service 129 

Newcomer, Frank C 178, 184 

Newell, Mrs. John E 213 

Normal School 143, 144 

Normal School Alumni 144 

North, Harold D 133, 138, 151, 158, 177, 180, 184, 193, 194, 197, 206, 212 

North, Harold D., Resignation of 180, 193 

Norton, D. Z 214 

Norton, Mrs. D. Z 209, 212 

Norton, Georgia L 209 

Novak, Estelle 161, 162, 176, 181, 182, 202, 204 

Nutt, J. H 214 

Oakley, L. E 167, 188, 196 

Ohio Buick Company 175, 183 

Ohio News Bureau Co 177, 184 

Ohio State Telephone Co 132, 162 

O'Kavanagh, Sister M. Ignatius 190, 195 

Onward to Victory, Campaign on 150 

Orkin, N. F 127, 132, 163, 169, 177, 181, 183 

Otis, Mrs .Charles A 146, 210 

Otis, Charles A 123, 124, 125, 126, 160, 168, 171, 173, 174, 175 

178, 179, 199, 200, 201, 203, 209 

Otis Lithograph Co., The 177, 185 

Owen, John G 213 

Paine, C. A 214 

Pajama Committee, Mr. Feiss 192, 195 

Pajamas, Soldiers at Camp Sheridan 191, 192, 195, 200 

Pajamas, Soldiers at Camp Sherman 192 

Palmer, C. H. A 127, 132, 163, 169 

Palmer, W. P 209, 214 

Pankuch, John 209 

Parker, Mary E 211 

Parks, Lieut 191 

Parochial Schools, Night Classes 124, 134, 137, 168 

Pate, R. G 212 

Patriotism, State Committee on ISO 

Patriotism, Committee on (Washington) 150 



Patriotism Committee, Expenditures Itemized 164, 165, 186, 207 

Patriotism, Sub-committee on 139, 150, 151 

Patterson, F. M 127, 132, 163, 170, 177, 181, 183 

Patterson, W. K 136, 164 

People's Transfer Co 176, 184, 196, 205 

Perkins, C. R 212 

Perkins, Mrs. Edna B 209, 212 

Perkins, Mrs. Roger G 211, 213 

Peterson, Dr. A. E 213 

Phillips, George 169, 177, 181, 183, 205 

Pickands, H. S 211 

Pirc, Louis J 209 

Plain Dealer 131, 165, 177, 185, 196, 197, 206, 207, 208 

Pond, Col. D. H 196, 207, 210 

Porter, Mrs. C. E 213 

Porter, R 132, 161, 164, 176, 181, 185, 202, 206 

Postal Telegraph-Cable Co 176, 177, 182, 185 

Potts, J. F 213 

Prentiss, F. F 214 

Prescott, Mrs. W. H 213 

Prevention of Waste, Sub-committee on 125, 133, 153, 212 

Price, John H 211 

Price, W. E 136, 164 

Prindle, C. H 131, 164 

Printz, Alexander 212 

Proceeds of Lecture 208 

Proctor, Mr 199 

Provost Marshal General 134, 186, 206 

Public Information, Washington, Committee on 150 

Publicity Committee, Expenditures 127, 131, 136, 161, 169, 175, 181, 188, 196, 202 

Publicity Committee, Expenditures Itemized 165, 186 

Publicity Committee, Report on 153 

Publicity, Sub-committee on 153, 179, 211 

Pyke, Mrs. A. B 212 

Quarrie, B. D 213 

Queisser, Captain Robert L 210 

Raddatz, William J 153, 179, 209, 211 

Rainbow Division, Mineola, L. 1 145, 159 

Ramson, Roy 196, 202, 205 

Rankin, Laura 161, 162, 165, 176, 181, 182, 185, 186, 202, 204, 205, 206, 207 

Raper, Mrs. John W 190, 213 

Rausch, Harold 204 

Red Cross 134, 145, 153, 168, 193 

Red Cross, Campaign on 150 

Red Cross Parade 146 

Remington Typewriter Co 131, 132, 162, 164, 165, 175, 176, 182, 184 

185, 196, 197, 204, 206 

Renter, Ruth 204 

Republic Electric Co 131, 164, 175, 185 

Resignation, Harold D. North 180, 193 

Resignation, Dunham 178 

Resignation, Executive Secretary, Americanization Committee 174 

Rice, Anna 176, 181, 182, 204 

Rice, Helen 184 

Ridsdale, P. S 148 

Riebel, L. M 131, 132, 162, 165 

River and Harbor Improvements, Mr. Otis 174, 175 

Roach-Reid Company 131, 163 

Roberts, E, A 213 

Roberts Company, F. W 132, 162 

Robertson, T. A 179 

Roger Williams Press 177, 184 

Romanul Company, The 132, 162, 177, 185 

Root, Lily 177, 183 

Rosenblatt, Max 205 

Rosewater, Mrs. Nathan 212 

Rotary Club 147 

Roueche, R. C 212 

Rowe, Ernest H 130, 159 

Royce, William 204 

Rudolph, D. C 176, 186 

Ruple, Sam 170, 172, 178, 183, 192 

Russell, George S 210 

Rusvnyk, Alex 209 

Rutherford, George A 204 

Ryan, Frank J 179 

St. Qair School 144 

St. Mary's of the Nativity 144 

Saal, Fred 211 

Sack, Isabelle 176, 181, 182, 204 

Saffold, Mrs. S. S 211 

Sale of Fertilizer 207 

Sale of Seed Potatoes 205 

Sammon, Geo. P 127, 177, 183 

Sanford, C. G 181, 183 



Sanford, Mrs. Henry L oi i oi o 

Schafer, William 211 

ichon'^Ida E^'^^ ^ ^^°' '"^'' 'l'^8-'i44: 'ueV 149; '26% 210, 213 

Scott, Frank .'.■.■.■.■.■.■.■.■.■.■.".■.■.■.■.■. ^^^' \^l 

Scott, Mrs. N. Stone " '. f"^ 

icSHng^^G'^. :::::;:::::: -^::::::::i27:u2: ui: Ye^:^: isi, is 

Screen Club '.'.'.'.V.V.'.V.V. 136, 164 

Seacrist, Frank ".' ". 1V7' ' Wh' 'Hi ' iko' "177 ' 'lo'i \o\ 

Secretary, Cuyahoga County Food Administration. V..' ' ' ' ^' ^^^' fg\ 

Selective Draft I'^i' ' V^o 1 ^c 

Selective Service Parade ^^^' ^^^' \V' 

Shaffer, H. J '. . .V. 1 97' 'i^^ ' 'iVfi \ki 

Sheffield, Henry E ^^^ ' ^^^' "6, 164 

Sherman, Henry S ". \°\ 

Shupe, Captain H. P lie, 130, i39, 'iVs,' 146' 'iSq',' 170, 'in ' 'iVs 176 

Simeral. Isabel ^^^' '^'' '''• ^^L 192! 199; 210 

iirons,\^v.'^Minoi: ::;;;:: '''' '''' '''' ''''' i"'- '^o^: Vos, 208 

ii=^,'S e::" ;;- ' •■■•■•■•■■•■■■• ••••■■••■••:■•■•;.•:;; •■;;;;.-;ii7,- 132, 

Smith; Aila?d ''.'rr'" "^^ '''' '''' 176' 182, 197. 202; 204 

Smith, Helen ■.■.■;.■;. ^^^' ^}9 

Smith, Major General -iVi Von 

Snyde, Marie R YJ.' }^0 

ir,V°£s.T'lv.v ■■.•■■•. :..:::::::::::::::::::::::;:::::::S 

Sqmre, Andrew i 71' "i'?? ' VqV 9rX' ono 

Stafford, O. M ^^'^' ^''^ ^^^' ^03. 209 

Stamford, Major Henry W .'.'".' oin 

Stanley, J. J \ ; • • ; ; 210 

Statement, Mayor's Advisory War Committee 'i V7 f qr 

Stearn Advertising Co I Si' |S? 

Stecher, W. H ''' }^A 

Stedronsky, S. A ■.■.'.'.■. •,•« l\, 

Steffen, F. W ^^^' \\% 

Steiner & Son, Asbury Park, N. J.' .".'.'.■.■.■.■ .'.■.■.■.■. ,'qr ' VnV 9n7 

Stern, Captain J. A 1^^' 202, 207 

Stoltz, J. L. 202, 207 

Stone, Warren S ^"^ 

^^^^ ::::::::::::. •■••••■•••■•••■•"••::::::i7s;i8K-i96;202^ 

Strong's Art Store '. .". "^' ^^° 

Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Co Vn'c ocm. 

Sullivan, C. E 202, 204 

Sullivan, Col. J. J 211, 213 

Sullivan. Selma 214 

Sunderland, Mrs. L. Ernest '. ,1 f 

Superior Advertising Co Vq'*; 907 

Survey of Work for Disabled Soldiers '. ' ifi 

Svet Printing & Publishing Co Pnfi 

Szabadsag, Hungarian Newspaper Co V77 ir^ 

?fcm!^iS'^r do;;tonV.v.;v.-.-.v.-.v.v.v.-.v.-.v -^^^^ "^' ^"' ''''^ '^''^> 

Telephone Canvass , no 

Telling-Belle Vernon Co -,71 T^i 

Thompson, James H ^ ' oVo 

Thrift, Tim ! 212 

Thwing, Mrs. Charles F i\\ 

Tillotson, E. G ^|^ 

Townes, Clayton C ■.■.'.■ ' ". ^|t 

Tozier, Mrs. C. B 2io 

tS ?^ 1SlSSn^1^^cZi^°?1^^^^ 

Irl^^onY^^-hoS"".^^ ^'^^^'^ ^ ::...::::::::::m;l95;J9'U 

?roop' a' Ac°aVm; ^2^' ^^'^'^ '^^'^' '''^^'' '^^^' '^'^'^'' '^^^' 202. 204 

T^kLma:? Dr. /"E.V. v. ■.-.•.• •.-.•. '''' '''' '''' ''^' 207 

Typewriters bought pif 

Underwood Typewriter Co 'i',', fVi 

Unger, Robert "1' \f 

Ss s^^(S.''"'"^ ^° ^v;;;/.•.■.•.•.•.•.■.•.•l32,•i62:■1•76.•i82;■m.•204, 208 

upp, Mrs. o. s .■::.■::::.■::::■■: 1^^' \^\ 

Upson, Mrs. Henry S ' i\i 

U. S. Department of Investigation /.V.V........V///^...V///////.\'.\'.',',\\[\\'' 195 



Vacant Lot Garden 147 

Vail, Harry L 139, 150, 151, 210, 211 

Vail, Mrs. Harry L 213 

Van Blarcom, Conant 210 

Van Duzer, Adelaide L 212 

Vitz, Carl P. P 210 

Volunteer Enlistment, Campaign on 150 

Wade, Garretson 212 

Wagner Manufacturing Company 131, 164, 176, 186, 187 

Walsh, James P 210, 211 

War Commission, Training Camp Activities 130, 145, 160 

War Garden Commendation 149 

War Garden Committee, Report on 146, 147, 148, 149, 171 

War Garden Committee, Expenditures 127, 131, 136, 149, 161, 169 

175, 181, 188, 1V6, 202 

War Garden Committee, Expenditures Itemized 165, 186, 187, 189, 207 

War Garden Facts 149 

War Garden Movement 147, 148 

War Garden, Sub-committee on 130, 137, 138, 146, 147, 148, 149, 210 

War Information Service 143 

Ward & Shaw (Printers) 131, 164 

Warner, Dr. A. R 211 

Wasielewski, Eleanor 127, 132, 163, 169, 183 

Weber-Lind Company 125 

Weir, Mrs. William H 213 

Weisman, Cyril 206 

Welf, Oliver : 127, 132, 163, 181, 183 

Welfare Federation 152 

Well, Elmer 170, 177, 183 

Wellman, M. V 161, 163, 177, 185 

Wellsted, T. C 212 

Western News Union 131, 165, 197, 202, 204, 207 

Western Reserve University 130, 141, 143 

Western Union Telegraph Co 131, 162, 163, 164, 165, 176, 182, 185, 186, 187 

White, W. C 195, 196, 199, 212 

Whiting, Effa B 161, 164, 176, 181, 185, 202, 206 

Whiting, F. Allen 210 

Whittle Sign Co 132, 165 

Whitworth, L. E 176, 185 

Wick, Mrs. Myron A 213 

Wiles, Dr. E. P 142, 168, 201 

Williams, E. M 211 

Williams, Ruth E 128, 132, 162 

Wills, Harry 127, 132, 163, 169, 177, 183 

Wilson, S. S 210 

Wilson, W. G 210 

Wing, Virginia 213 

Wolf, Mrs. L. J 213 

Wolfe, Gertrude A 127, 132, 151, 161, 166, 176, 180, 181, 187, 202, 208, 212 

Wolsey, Rabbi Louis 210 

Women's Activities, Sub-committee on 129, 138, 151, 180, 193, 195, 212 

Women's Americanization, Sub-committee on 123, 141, 143, 211 

Women's Committee, Expenditures 127, 131, 136, 161, 169, 175, 181, 188, 196, 202 

Women's Committee, Expenditures Itemized 165, 166, 187, 207, 208 

Women's Committee, Report on 151 

Wood, Helen G 175, 185, 202, 206 

Wood, H. W. S 214 

Wood, Tohn J 146, 210 

Wood, Margaret A 161, 164, 176, 181, 185, 202, 206 

Woodland School 144 

Woodruff, W 131, 164 

Woods, J. H 211 

Woodward, Charles 213 

Worman, Mrs. Howard A 212 

Wren, W. C 210, 212 

Wright, Edward R 212, 213 

Wright, H. J 212 

Wright, R. C 146, 147, 210 

Yawberg, A. C 212 

Yawman & Erbe Co 132, 136, 162, 175, 176, 182, 185, 186, 187 

196, 197, 202, 206, 207, 208 

Young Men's Christian Association 153, 160 

Young Women's Christian Association, Akron 144 

Zangerle, John A 212 

Zeuge, Helen 127, 132, 164 

Zimerman, Col. C. X 200, 210 

Zimmerman, E. P. . . . .• 127 



Meeting of the Executive Committee 
October 2, 1917 

A meeting of the Executive Committee was held on Tuesday, October 
2nd, at 2 :30 P. M. in the Mayor's office. 

Present: Chairman Herrick, Mayor Davis, Messrs. Mooney, Otis and 
Feiss. 

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 

On motion of Chairman Herrick, Mr. Warren S. Hayden, partner of 
Mr. Otto Miller, who recently resigned as Secretary of the Executive Com- 
mittee, was elected to serve as Secretary in his stead, and the Executive 
Secretary directed to notify him of his election. The question of Mr. 
Miller's desire still to serve as a member of the Executive Committee 
even while he is at Montgomery in the military service was left for Mr. 
Hayden's report. 

Mr. Harold T. Clark, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on American- 
ization, appeared before the Executive Committee in behalf of his budget. 
Verbally he went over the ground covered by the following letter, which 
had previously been sent to members of the Executive Committee : 

"In accordance with instructions given at your meeting on 
August 27tii, I tooI<: up on September 14th with Mr. F. H. Goff and 
Mr. Paul L. Feiss, as your Sub-Committee, and with Mr. Sam B. 
Anson, as your Executive Secretary, the plans of the Americaniza- 
tion _ Committee and its budget. For use at this conference, I 
obtained a statement of the amounts appropriated by the Committee 
for Americanization work and the expenditures made therefrom up 
to September 15th, 1915. The following is a summary: 

Amount Appropriated: May 12th $1,000.00 

July 2nd 5,000.00 

^ , , .„ $6,000.00 
Total bills and salaries paid to Septem- 
ber 1st $2,255.11 

Pending bills unpaid 517.32 

Salaries from Sept. 1st to 15th 355.00 

$3,127.43 
Balance of appropriation $2,872.57 

"In connection therewith, however, it is only fair to say that 
included among the disbursements are expenditures for the Fourth 
of July meeting at the Hippodrome, amounting to between $500 
and $600, which your Committee said would not be regarded as a 
special appropriation for Americanization work, because it was to take 
care of a celebration which has become an annual event in Cleveland. 

"As a result of the conference with Mr. Goff, Mr. Feiss and Mr. 
Anson, and in order to prepare our budget in keeping with the method 
of organization approved by your commattee, I have revised the 
budget of the Americanization Committee. It is our understanding 
that your committee will carry as general office overhead expenses any 
allowances which it may be found necessary to make for such items 
as office equipment, stationery, supplies, multigraphing, stenographic 
work, postage and other incidental office expenses. We shall give 
Mr. Anson all the assistance possible in estimating the probable 
requirements of our committee with respect to these various items. 

"In addition to the foregoing, there are the following specific 
expenses which the Americanization Committee will need to incur in 
order to carry on the work which it has planned: 

I. AMERICANIZATION COMMITTEE: 

Salary of Secretary $3,000.00 

Special allowance for publicity in "America 
First" campaign to get aliens into the 
Public School and other classes 750.00 

II. WOMEN'S AMERICANIZATION 
COMMITTEE 

Salary of Secretary 1,800.00 

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III. AMERICANIZATION INFORMATION 
BUREAU 

Salary of Secretary 1,800.00 

Salary of Assistant Secretary 1,200.00 

Salary of 2nd Assistant Secretary 900.00 

Allowance for printing War Information 

Service 500.00 

Total $9,950.00 

"In addition to the foregoing, there will be some necessary 
expenses for items such as the following: 

"Preparation of Americanization Exhibits, for use at libraries 
and elsewhere. Extra help during certain rush periods — for example, 
at the Information Bureau there have been times when it is neces- 
sary to get extra helpers. It has generally been possible to use 
volunteers — the services of more than 100 oi such having been ob- 
tained — but times have come and may come again when for a few 
days extra, paid help will be needed. Printing of special reports as 
to the progress of the work; car fare; traveling expenses, if it_ shall 
at any time become desirable to send some one to another city to 
investigate Americanization work being done there; and other con- 
tingencies which are certain to arise in connection with work of this 
kind, but which it is difficult to specify in advance. 

"I would estimate that in the course of a year, these items of 
special Americanization expense might amount to $500 to $1,000. 

"We have filed with Mr. Anson a complete detailed report of 
our work to date and shall from time to time see that this report is 
extended. It being our wish and intention to keep in close touch 
with your Committee, so that all of our activities may meet with your 
fullest approval, we shall feel free, in the event future develop- 
ments of our work seem to warrant doing so. to request you to 
make further specific appropriations for particular purposes not cov- 
ered by the foregoing requests." 

The Executive Secretary estimated that he could keep the general 
overhead office expenses, such as steno,graphic and general clerk hire for 
this Sub-Committee within $4,000 for a year. On motion of Mr. Feiss, 
seconded by Mr. Otis, it was voted to appropriate $10,950 for the work 
of Mr. Clark's committee for the year ending September 1st, 1918. 

When the following letter from Mr. Clark on the question of policy 
relating to night classes in English in parochial schools was read, the 
question of whether the Mayor's Advisory War Committee should take 
the responsibility for the innovation was referred to Mr. Mooney and 
Mr. Clark for report at the next meeting: 

"In connection with the carrying on of the city wide American- 
ization movement, in which we have been working in close co-opera- 
tion with the public school authorities, a point has arisen which we 
desire to call to your attention: The public school authorities, in pui-- 
suance of their wish to adapt the schools to Community Service, are 
desirous of undertaking all Americanization work which is proper for 
them to do. At the same time they recognize that the funds pro- 
vided for the conduct of the schools come from general taxation, and 
they therefore do not wish to use any part of those funds in a way 
which might subject them to any just criticism. 

"In accordance with our Americanization plans for giving to 
every resident of Cleveland an opportunity to learn English and to 
gain a knowledge of American ideals and traditions, we have been 
urging the formation of classes in whatever places might be found 
most available, whether they be school buildings, factories, stores, 
settlement houses, institutions of any kind, or homes. We have 
sought to create classes; the public school authorities have under- 
taken, in so far as may prove possible, to provide trained teachers 
and conduct the teaching. 

"Among the places which have been offered for the holding of 
such classes to be conducted by the public school authorities have 
been certain of the parochial school buildings. It will undoubtedly 
be easier to get a non-English speaking parent to attend a class in 
the parochial school building where his children go than to attend in 
less familiar surroundings. 

"Our Committee, after discussing 'the matter at length at the 
meeting held on September 19th was very strongly of the opinion that 
such offers should be accepted and asked that a letter be sent to you 
upon the subject. 

"On account of the usual line of demarcation between the work 
of the public and parochial schools, the public school authorities are 

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desirous of knowing the views of your Committee as to whether any 
objections could be fairly raised to the conducting by them of 
Americanization classes in parochial school buildings. 

"This being an important question which has naturally and 
necessarily arisen out of the carrying on of the city-wide Americaniza- 
tion movement which we have been advancing as your Sub-Com- 
mittee, will you kindly give the public school authorities and us the 
benefit of your views thereon?" 

During the general discussion which followed Mr. Clark's proposal 
that the Mayor's Advisory War Committee go on record as favoring 
some form of legislation which would make it mandatory upon the alien 
to learn the English language, it was suggested that Mr. Clark while on 
his proposed business trip to Washington next week consult with the 
Bureaus of Education and Immigration as to legislation they may know 
of as proposed or pending and make a definite report upon his return, 
advising the form of legislation which this Committee might go on record 
as endorsing. In the meantime it was the sense of the meeting that the 
Committee acquiesced in the matter as a general proposition. 

Apropos of the following letter to Mayor Davis from Herbert Hoover, 
U. S. Food Administrator — 

"Cleveland is known as a city of progress, prompt in its 
patriotic response In view of the present crisis thru which we are 
passing, it is fitting that your city avail itself of an exceptional 
opportunity to render our country a service which it is believed 
will be followed by all the large cities. A threatened scarcity of 
Food, the vital need of Conservation and the serious conviction of 
this administration, that "FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR" prompts 
us to respectfully suggest to the Cleveland city administrators a plan 
that will forcibly convey that statement to the many people in your 
vicinity, with the added appeal "DON'T WASTE IT." 

"We believe your Municipal building affords a conspicuous place 
for an attractive bulletin sign. No doubt your local advertisiiig sign 
people will co-operate with you to the extent of volunteering the 
loan of material and men to erect and paint the sign so that this 
message "FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR— DON'T WASTE IT" may 
remain on view possibly for the term of the war — before all the 
people of Cleveland." 

The Executive Secretary reported that he had offers to build such 
signs in various locations and various forms free of cost to the Committee 
from the following firms : The Thos. Cusack Co., The Weber-Lind Co., 
The A. & W. Electric Sign Co., and the Simon Sign Co. He reported 
further that the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co. had offered to illumi- 
nate free of cost to us, the sign the Cusack Co. proposed building on the 
Public Square and that he intended to make a further effort to induce 
the Illuminating Co. to make a similar proposition covering the electric 
sign which the A. & W. Sign Co. offered to put on top of May's Drug 
Store on the Public Square. On motion of Mr. Otis, the Executive Secre- 
tary was instructed to proceed to secure as many such signs as possible. 

A letter from Allen T. Burns in which he accepted appointments to 
the Sub-Committees on Americanization and Training Camp Recreation 
and simultaneously resigned as Secretary and member of the Sub- 
Committee on the Prevention of Waste was read. The Executive Secre- 
tary was instructed to notify Mr. Burns that his resignation from con- 
nection with the Sub-Committee on Prevention of Waste was accepted 
with regret. The Executive Secretary was further instructed to request 
Mr. Geo. Marshall, Vice-Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Prevention 
of Waste, to present a plan to the members of the Executive Committee 
whereby an efficient reorganization coitld be worked out. 

The following communication was received from Clarence J. Fitz- 
patrick, representing the British Recruiting Mission in Cleveland : 

"Confirming conversation of today with Mr. Anson, we would 
respectfully ask for permission to place our Recruiting Posters for 
the British Army around Cleveland. 

"We are contemplating having posters posted in prominent places 

all over the city and in order to make the matter entirely in order, 

would sincerely appreciate having a written permit from you. This, 
we understand, we should be able to obtain." 

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The Executive Secretary was directed to inform Mr. Fitzpatrick that 
the Mayor's Advisory War Committee has no objection to the placing of 
recruiting posters about the city, and further that Mr. Fitzpatrick's efforts 
in this direction has the Committee's approval. 

The following communication to the Executive Secretary from Food 
Commissioner Dunham was read and ordered filed : 

"In accordance with your telephone request, I wish to state that 
during the next two or three weeks we will complete the harvest 
of the crops at North Olmsted and be able to clean up everything 
which the agricultural department has undertaken during the present 
season, at which time I will be pleased to submit a report to the 
Mayor's Advisory War Committee together with a final statement 
of the work and everything pertaining to it." 

The Executive Secretary was instructed to write to the Food Ad- 
ministrator at Washington, Mr. Hoover, outlining briefly the manner and 
the extent to which the various Sub-Committees of the Mayor's Advisory 
War Committee are carrying out conservation policies outlined by him, 
and asking if he has any further recommendations. 

The following letter from Captain H. P. Shupe, Chairman of the 
Sub-Committee on Military Affairs, was received and read : 

"The 330th and 331st Regiments National Army now being 
formed at Chillicothe will be composed entirely of men _ from the 
City of Cleveland. The officers of these two regiments will also be 
Cleveland men who received their commissions at the first training 
camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. 

"The officers of these regiments expressed a desire that they 
should be presented by the City of Cleveland with a stand of national 
and regimental colors each, and you can readily appreciate from a 
sentimental standpoint that this would be the right thing for the 
Mayor's Advisory War Committee to do. 

"However, as there was some criticism on the presentation of 
the stand of colors recently given by the Mayor's Advisory War 
Committee to a regiment of Cleveland men, I do not feel justified 
as chairman of the Military Sub-Committee in going ahead with the 
two stands of colors above referred to, without being advised of 
the attitude of the Executive Committee and would therefore appre- 
ciate it if you would indicate to me at the earliest possible moment 
what your desires are in the matter. 

"The colors, regimental and national, for each regiment will cost 
$280, a total of $560." 

The Executive Secretary was instructed to notify Capt. Shupe to 
proceed with the purchase of the two sets of regimental and national 
colors for the regiments concerned. 

Chairman Herrick then broached the subject of the desirability of 
having another meeting of the General Committee of the Mayor's Ad- 
visory War Committee at an early date. The idea was generally approved 
and the Executive Secretary was instructed to notify the Secretaries of 
the Sub-Committees to be in readiness to appear before such a meeting 
of the General Committee to be called sometime in October, and there 
report the progress of the work done and outline plans for the future. 

Chairman Herrick outlined plans for the benefit football game to be 
played in a few weeks between all star teams selected from members of 
the National Army at Chillicothe and the Western Reserve team, and 
urged that the Executive Committee go on record as endorsing the pro- 
posed game as praiseworthy. 

On motion of Mr. Otis the Executive Secretary was requested to so 
notify the Camp Sherman authorities. 

The Executive Secretary, at the suggestion of Chairman Herrick, 
was instructed to address a letter to all members of the general Mayor's 
Advisory War Committee urging that they do everything in their power 
to further the success in Cleveland of the second Liberty Loan campaign. 

The Executive Secretary read the usual financial statement. 

The meeting adjourned at 3:45 P. M. 

SAM B. ANSON, 

Executive Secretary. 

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REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE TO DATE 
(Read at Executive Commiteee Meeting, October 2, 1917) 

Previous Distributions : 

( 1) Executive Committee $ 1,420.85 

(2) War Garden Committee 3,724.60 

(3) General Office 2,557.27 

(4) Publicity Committee 1,509.68 

( 5) County Food Commissioner 20,153.37 

( 6) Military Committee 4,704.92 

(7) Women's Committee 875.34 

( 8) Americanization 3,211.18 

(9) County Draft Board 5,253.04 

(10) A. P. L 414.92 

(11) Food Conservation Committee 

Bills Payable 20,258.64 



$64,083.31 



DISTRIBUTION OF SEPTEMBER 22, 1917 
Voucher No. In Favor of — Account Charged Amount 

3 Vida Cahill (3) $ 42.00 
2 Eleanor Friedman (3) 36.00 

4 Mrs. Max Hellman (7) 42.75 
1 Register of Copyrights (8) 1.00 

Total Distributions to Date 64,205.56 

$ 121.75 

Audited September 22, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commissioner 
of Accounts. 

DISTRIBUTION OF SEPTEMBER 29, 1917 



her No. 


In Favor of — Account Charged 


Amount 


37 


Sam B. Anson 


(1) $ 


182.50 


48 


C. F. Knirk 


(2) 


83.33 


36 


H. J. Shaffer 


(3) 


15.00 


43 


A. H. Hood 


(3) 


87.50 


44 


Hazel Elattner 


(3) 


37.50 


46 


Helen Zeuge 


(3) 


25.00 


49 


W. H. Collins 


(3) 


28.02 


5 


Am. Multigraph Sales Co. 


(3) 


847.70 


10 


Geo. P. Sarnmon 


(3) 


200.00 


12 


Vida Cahill 


(3) 


42.00 


11 


Eleanore Friedm.an 


(3) 


36.00 


50 


Paul J. Bast 


(3) 


40.00 


42 


E. A. Smiley 


(4) 


75.90 


51 


Miscellaneous Expense 


(4) 


42.85 


35 


Robt. Unger 


(6) 


40.50 


34 


Fred Irwin 


(6) 


3.00 


38 


Anna Connors 


(7) 


37.50 


47 


Gertrude A. Wolfe 


(7) 


62.50 


39 


Lawrence C. Cole 


(8) 


75.00 


40 


Raymond E. Cole 


(8) 


125.00 


41 


Helen Bacon 


(8) 


75.00 


32 


Joe Trinastic 


(8) 


35.00 


31 


Barbara Hornyak 


(8) 


37.50 


45 


Sarah Glass 


(8) 


37.50 


33 


William Levinson 


(8) 


45.00 


51 


Miscellaneous Expense 


(8) 


47.85 


13 


C. H. A. Palmer 


(9) 


50.00 


14 


W. H. Keeling 


(9) 


60.00 


15 


Charles Dempster 


(9) 


20.00 


16 


N. F. Orkin 


(9) 


6.00 


17 


W. C. Clarke 


(9) 


30.00 


18 


A. M. Scotland 


(9) 


20.00 


19 


E. P. Zimmerman 


(9) 


10.00 


20 


Frank Seacrist 


(9) 


12.00 


21 


Harry Wills 


(9) 


20.00 


22 


F. M. Patterson 


(9) 


15.00 


23 


C. J. C. Grant 


(9) 


20.00 


24 


Eleanor Wasielewski 


(9) 


10.00 


25 


L. E. Koosed 


(9) 


6.00 


26 


Madgdalene Taylor 


(9) 


6.00 


27 


Mrs. A. G. Jenkins 


(9) 


6.00 


28 


Oliver Welf 


(9) 


20.00 


29 


Myrtle Simons 


(9) 


12.00 


30 


Hugh Alexander 


(9) 


30.00 



127 



51 Miscellaneous Expense (9) 10.50 

6 Ruth Fryman (10) 42.50 

7 Ella B. Hiatt (10) 40.00 

8 Ruth E. Williams (10) 37.50 

9 Grace Murphy (10) 37.50 

$ 2,885.65 

Total Distributions $67,091.21 

Checks Cancelled : 

No. 366 $ 10.00 (9) 

No. 395 2,500.00 (9) 

No. 440 6.25 (8) 

2,516.25 



Total Distributions to Date $64,574.96 

Audited September 28, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commissioner 
of Accounts. 



128 



Meeting o£ the Executive Committee 
October 15, 1917 

A meeting of the Executive Committee was held on Alonday, October 
15th at 2 :30 P. M. in the Mayor's office. 

Present: Chairman Herrick, Mayor Davis, Messrs. Feiss, Havens and 
Greenlund. 

Because Mr. Herrick was delayed at another meeting elsewhere, Mr. 
Feiss acted as Chairman temporarily. 

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved. 
Mr. Herrick then entered the room and took charge of the meeting 
as chairman. 

Mr. Feiss reported on behalf of himself and Mr. Goff, the committee 
of two to which was referred the budget of the Sub-Committee _ on 
Women's Activities, approved the budget and recommended its adoption. 
On motion of Mr. Greenlund, seconded by Mr. Havens, the appropriation 
of $12,100 called for in the budget for a year's work from August 1, 1917, 
to August 1, 1918, was granted. The budget is as follows: 

OFFICE EXPENSE $ 1,500.00 

Salary, Secretary _. . ; $1,500.00 

Stenographic service, stationery and printing to be cared 
for by the General Office. 

FOOD CONSERVATION 2,600.00 

Demonstrations in School Houses (War Centers), Other 
Demonstrations and Exhibits. 

NEIGHBORHOOD WAR SERVICE $8,000.00 

When it is demonstrated that these initial War Centers 
are successfully accomplishing that which is sought 
for them to accomplish, it is the intention of the 
Chairman to recommend initial appropriations for ex- 
tending this work by the establishment of additional 
War Centers. 
Four War Centers in Co-operation with the schools — Per 

Center— Salary Executive Secretary $1,200 to $1,500.00 

Clerical Expense, Miscellaneous Expense 500 to 800.00 

TOTAL $12,100.00 

A com.munication from Mr. Warren S. Hayden accepting his election 
as a member and secretary of the Executive Committee was ordered filed. 
His letter follows : 

"Referring to your letter of the 3rd inst., I note that I have been 
chosen Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Mayor's War 
Committee in place of my partner, Mr. Otto Miller, v/ho is now serv- 
ing in the army. 

"I note further that this choice carries with it election to mem- 
bership of the Executive Committee. There are some things I might 
say in respect to taking on further duties, but after all it is not worth 
while to say anything except that I accept. 

"I appreciate your flattering allusion to my firm, _and_ I wish to 
assure you that I appreciate the great confidence implied in my 
appointment to this service." 

A request for a six weeks loan of $6,000 made on behalf of the 
Daughters of the American Revolution by Mrs. Edward L. Harris, State 
Regent, through Mr. Gofif, was voted upon adversely. Mrs. Harris in 
her letter stated that $6,000 was needed to begin immediately to build 
a building at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, to be known as a "Hostess 
House," which would in reality be a hotel maintained for the convenience 
of women members of families of soldiers at Camp Sherman. Mrs. 
Harris' letter stated that her organization expected to be able to repay the 
loan as soon as all of the assessments she expects from the local chapters 
of her organization throughout the state were received. 

In the discussion which preceded the voting, it was generally agreed 
that this committee could not properly so expend its funds, because of the 
purely local nature of the trust imposed in it. The Executive Secretary 
was instructed to notify Mrs. Harris to this effect and to convey in such 
letter of notification the committee's sincere regret that it was unable to 
assist in what it regarded as a meritorious undertaking. 

The Executive Secretary presented the following statement of the 
condition of the Council's sundry appropriation of $5,000.00 as of October 
1st, 1917: 

Appronriation Disbursements Balance Outstanding Balance Available 

$5,000 $693.70 $4,306.30 $60.30 $4,246.00 

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Communications were read from Myron J. Antel, Sergeant, Company 
F, 166th Infantry, and Ernest H. Rowe, Representative of the War De- 
partment Commission on Training Camp Activities, both of whom are 
stationed at Camp Mills, Garden City, Long Island. These communica- 
tions requested appropriations from this city for replenishing the company 
funds of the 166th Infantry, which formerly was known as the Fourth 
Ohio, to which was recently added about 125 members of the Fifth Ohio 
from Cleveland. These communications were referred to Capt. Shupe, 
Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Military Affairs, who was instructed 
to go to Camp Mills at the Committee's expense and investigate the appli- 
cations and file a report at the earliest succeeding meeting. 

The executive secretary v/as instructed to invite Herbert Hoover, 
United States Food Administrator, and David F. Houston, Secretary of 
Agriculture, to be guests of honor at a Conservation mass meeting, which 
would be arranged in their honor either before or after October 22nd, 
when both gentlemen are scheduled to make addresses at the National 
Dairy Show at Columbus. In the event of his securing an acceptance from 
these gentlemen, the Executive Secretary was further instructed to confer 
with the committee in charge of the Liberty Loan campaign, with a view 
of fitting the presence of Messrs. Hoover and Houston into the Liberty 
Loan program. 

A financial report from Food Commissioner Dunham, from May 1st 
to October 1st, inclusive, was presented by the Executive Secretary and 
ordered filed. 

A final report from the Sub-Committee on War Gardens, by George A. 
Schneider, its chairman, v/as read by the Executive Secretary and approved. 
The Secretary, Mr. Hayden, was asked by Chairman Herrick to prepare 
an appropriate letter of commendation of the efforts of Mr. Schneider and 
his co-workers, and send it at his earliest convenience to Mr. Schneider. 
The Executive Secretary was authorized to have the report which is 
appended to these minutes printed for public distribution, and to request 
Mr. Schneider to appear before an early meeting prepared to definitely 
recommend a winter plan of action. 

Upon the reading of the communication from Harold T. Clark, Chair- 
man of the Sub-Committee on Americanization, asking that Professors 
J. E. Cutler and Raymond Moley, both of Western Reserve University, be 
invited to become members of the Sub-Committee, the Executive Secretary 
was instructed to send such letters of invitation. 

The Executive Secretary was authorized to call a special meeting some 
day during the vv^eek when it would be possible for John B. Hebberd, Rep- 
resentative of the War Commission on Training Camp Activities, at Camp 
Sheridan, Montgomery, to be present to address the committee on the 
needs of his work at Montgomery. 

The usual financial statement was read and approved. 
The meeting adjourned at 4:05 p. m. 

SAM B. ANSON, 
Executive Secretary. 



130 



REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE TO DATE 
(Read at Executive Committee Meeting, October IS, 1917) 



Previous Distributions : 

( 1) Executive Committee $ 1,603.35 

( 2) War Garden Committee 3,807.93 

(3) General Office 3,993.99 

( 4) Publicity Committee 1,628.43 

( 5) County Food Commissioner 20,153.37 

( 6) Military Committee 4,748.42 

( 7) Women's Committee 1,018.09 

(8) Americanization 3,683.78 

(9) County Draft Board 3,106.54 

(10) A. P. L 572.42 

Bills Payable 20,258.64 



^,574.96 



DISTRIBUTION OF OCTOBER 10, 1917 



Check No. In Favor of- 



Account Charged Amount 



54 Forman-Bassett Co. 

57 Western Union Tel. Co. 

58 Underwood Typewr. Co. 

63 W. H. Collins 

65 Mount & Co. 

76 H. Korman 

77 Simon Sign Co. 
83 Beebe & Son 
88 Roach-Reid Co. 

97 Remington Typewrit. Co. 

106 Harris Printing Co. 

107 Hiles & Gogshall 
110 Burrows Bros. Co. 
114 Eclipse Electro Co. 
117 Cleveland Tel. Co. 

59 Troop A. Acad. 

64 Plain Dealer 

74 Excelsior Stamp Works 

75 Plain Dealer 

76 PI. Korman 

79 Cleveland Press 

87 Western News Union 

116 Cleveland Press 

117 Cleveland. Tel. Co. 

118 Cleveland Co. 

72 Hall & Pliggins 
82 Central Tire Shop 

56 Ward & Shaw 

60 Telling-Belle Vernon Co. 

66 J. J. Metzger 

67 Geo. J. Mesker 

68 Masten's Band 
70 J. A. McElhaney 

93 C. H. Prindle 

78 Costello's Band 

80 Cleveland Laundry 
9S C. H. Prindle 

94 W. Woodruff 

95 Geo. Foster 

96 Geo. Akins 

100 F. T. Mudge 

101 Alba Water Co. 

102 E. Jeffrey 

103 M. M. Protect. Assn. 

104 M. Mountcastle 

105 Wagner Mfg. Co. 

108 L. L. Chandler 

112 Republic Electric 

57 Western Union Tel. 

97 Remington Typewr. Co. 
99 Heiser Co. 

107 Hiles & Cogshall 

110 Burrows Co. 

113 L. _M. Riebel 

114 Eclipse Electro. Co. 
117 Cleveland Tel. Co. 

53 Davis-Hunt-ColHster 

57 Western Union Tel. Co. 

69 Martin Barris Co. 

73 Gray Lumber Co. 



(3) 


$ 8.55 


(3) 


5.08 


(3) 


3.00 


(3) 


6.50 


(3) 


15.00 


(3) 


.20 


(3) 


3.00 


(3) 


14.73 


(3) 


353.50 


(3) 


3.00 


(3) 


28.18 


(3) 


38.40 


(3) 


17.25 


(3) 


5.25 


(3) 


1.64 


(4) 


56.00 


(4) 


1.50 


(4) 


1.30 


(4) 


16.90 


(4) 


21.69 


(4) 


2.74 


(4) 


30.00 


(4) 


3.80 


(4) 


1.36 


(4) 


8.10 


(5) 


15.00 


(5) 


19.10 


(6) 


6.00 


(6) 


82.01 


(6) 


2.25 


(6) 


4.58 


(6) 


105.00 


(6) 


7.00 


(6) 


3.00 


(6) 


105.00 


(6) 


54.95 


(6) 


3.00 


(6) 


3.00 


(6) 


3.00 


(6) 


3.00 


(6) 


12.75 


(6) 


24.10 


(6) 


11.35 


(6) 


105.00 


(6) 


11.40 


(6) 


11.40 


(6) 


97.48 


(6) 


53.11 


(7) 


2.14 


(7) 


7.50 


(7) 


11.00 


(7) 


80.50 


(7) 


.40 


(7) 


5.40 


(7) 


3.50 


(7) 


3.24 


(8) 


1.80 


(8) 


2.14 


(8) 


9.75 


(8) 


7.08 



131 



90 
91 
92 
97 
110 
111 
113 
114 

lis 

117 

55 
61 
62 
81 
85 
98 
109 
110 



Artcraft Co. 
H. Korman 
Simon Sign Co. 
B. & W. Taxi 
Kingsley Paper Co. 
Ohio State Tel. Co. 
The Romanul 
Union Paper & Twine 
Remington Typewr. Co. 
Burrows Co. 
Yawman & Erbe Co. 
L. M. Riebel 
Eclipse Electro Co. 
Hubbell Ptg. Co. 
Cleveland Tel. Co. 
A. J. Hirstius 
L. C. Smith Type. Co. 
F. W. Roberts Co. 
Cleveland Desk 
Am. Printing Co. 
Ives Co. 
Brooks Co. 
Burrows Co. 



69.75 

.75 

4.50 

S.OO 

13.44 

.20 

.56 

6.20 

2.00 

.05 

.95 

15.00 

3.50 

7.50 

1.70 

94.67 

3.00 

.25 

5.00 

2.75 

33.20 

72.70 



$ 1,976.99 



Total Distributions to Date. 



Audited October 10, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, 
of Accounts. 



$ 66,551.95 

City Commissioner 



DISTRIBUTION OF OCTOBER IS, 1917 



Check No. 


In Favor of — 


Account Charged 


Amount 


123 


Sam B. Anson 


(1) 


$ 182.50 


133 


C. F. Knirk 


(2) 


83.37 


120 


M. Eidelstone 


(3) 


7.68 


128 


A. H. Hood 


(3) 


87.50 


129 


Hazel Blattner 


(3) 


37.50 


131 


H. Zeuge 


(3) 


25.00 


134 


H. J. Schaffer 


(3) 


15.00 


135 


R. Porter 


(3) 


33.00 


121 


Fred Irwin 


(6) 


28.50 


122 


Geo. J. Mesker 


(6) 


4.50 


119 


Whittle Sign Co. 


(7) 


3.60 


124 


Anna Connors 


(7) 


37.50 


132 


G. A. Wolfe 


(7) 


62.50 


125 


Lawrence Cole 


(8) 


75.00 


126 


R. E. Cole 


(8) 


125.00 


127 


Helen Bacon 


(8) 


75.00 


130 


Sarah Glass 


(8) 


37.50 


136 


J. Trinastic 


(8) 


40.00 


137 


B. Horn yak 


(8) 


37.50 


142 


C. Dempster 


(9) 


20.00 


143 


N. F. Orkin 


(9) 


6.00 


144 


W. H. Keeling 


(9) 


60.00 


145 


C. II. Palmer 


(9) 


50.00 


146 


W. C. Clarke 


(9) 


30.00 


147 


A. M. Scotland 


(9) 


20.00 


148 


F. Seacrist 


(9) 


12.00 


149 


Mrs. A. Jenkins 


(9) 


6.00 


150 


M. TayloV 


(9) 


6.00 


151 


C. Bologna 


(9) 


6.00 


152 


H. Wills 


(9) 


20.00 


153 


F. M. Patterson 


(9) 


30.00 


154 


C. T. Grant 


(9) 


20.00 


155 


0. Welf 


(9) 


20.00 


156 


E. Wasiewlewski 


(9) 


10.00 


157 


M. Simons 


(9) 


6.00 


158 


C. J. Bartunck 


(9) 


52.00 


138 


G. Murphy 


(10) 


37.50 


139 


R. V/illiams 


(10) 


37.50 


140 


E. B. Hyatt 


(10) 


40.00 


141 


R. Fryman 


(10) 


42.50 

$ 1 5''" 65 







Total Distributions to Date $ 68,081.60 

Audited October 15, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commissioner 
of Accounts. 



132 



special Meeting of Executive Committee 
October 18, 1917 

A special meeting of the Executive Committee was held Thursday, 
Oct. 18th, at 2 :30 P. M. in the Mayor's office. 

Present : Mayor Davis, and Messrs. Feiss and Mooney. 

In the absence of Chairman Herrick, Mayor Davis presided. 

The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved. 

Mr. Feiss informed the committee of arrangements he is making, as 
a member of the labor committee of the Council of National Defense, for 
the entertainment of members of the British labor administration who are 
to be in Cleveland, October 27th to 31st. He reported that he will ask J. 
Wayne Hart of the Cleveland Federation of Labor, Munson Havens of 
the Chamber of Commerce, Miss Myrta L. Jones of the Consumers' 
League, Director of Utilities Thomas S. Farrell and Warren S. Hayden, 
Secretary of this committee, to assist him in these arrangements. His 
plans were approved. 

On motion of Mr. Feiss, it was decided to ask Harold D. North, 
newly appointed County Food Administrator, to accept appointment as 
chairman of a new sub-committee of the Mayor's Advisory War Com- 
mittee to be known as its Committee on Food Administration. Mr. 
Feiss explained, in moving this action, that he felt that the Executive Com- 
mitee should thus recognize, endorse and support the efforts of the Na- 
tional Food Administration, which thought was concurred in by the other 
members. 

In view of the fact that such a Committee on Food Administra- 
tion will supersede the existing Sub-Committee on Prevention of Waste, 
which has been responsible for "The Cleveland Market News Service." 
and other market regulatory measures, the Executive Secretary was in- 
structed to notify Messrs. Frank S. Harmon and George G. Marshall, 
chairman and vice-chairman, respectively, of the Sub-Committee on Pre- 
vention of Waste, of the Executive Committee's action. It was sug- 
gested, during the discussion of this phase of the subject, that Mr. North 
might possibly wish to continue this sub-committee under his main 
committee, to be known as the Sub-Committee on Market Regulation, or 
by some similar designation. The Executive Secretary was instructed to 
secure the presence of Mr. North at the next meeting. 

The Executive Secretary's request for authority to have the minutes 
of meetings printed following each meeting in loose-leaf form for imme- 
diate distribution to members of the Executive Committee, and, at stated 
intervals, in bound, pamphlet form for distribution to the general public, 
was approved. 

The Executive Secretary was also authorized to discontinue publica- 
tion of "The Cleveland Soldier," the bi-monthly newspaper printed for 
several months for distribution among Cleveland soldiers and sailors over- 
seas. He offered, as explanation for the request for such authority, the 
statement that his investigation had developed that "The Cleveland 
Soldier," because of the comparatively wide distribution of Cleveland 
daily newspapers abroad, failed of its mission. 

A meeting of the general Mayor's Advisory War Committee was 
ordered for 3 :30 P. M. Tuesday, October 23rd, in the Mayor's committee 
room, 303 City Hall. The Executive Secretary was directed to ask the 
Secretary, Mr. Hayden, to be present, prepared to address the members on 
the necessity of doing their share toward waking Cleveland up to a realiza- 
tion that unless there comes immediately a more generous and patriotic 
response to the second Liberty Loan offering, Cleveland stands in grave 
danger of not only failing to equal the proud record established in the first 
Liberty Loan campaign, but of failing even to reach its established quota. 
It was understood that reports of the various sub-committees reviewing 
work accomplished and outlining work contemplated should also be pre- 
sented to that meeting. 

133 



The Executive Secretary was directed to send a letter to the Cleve- 
land Council, American Red Cross, requesting that the Mayor's Advisory 
War Committee be given an additional $25,000 of the funds the Red Cross 
has set aside for it. 

A communication from W. S. FitzGerald, special representative for 
Cuyahoga County for the Provost-Marshal-General's department, request- 
ing an additional apropriation of $200 for the purpose of underwriting 
the unpaid government salaries of his young women assistants, was read, 
and the request granted, with the stipulation that Mr. FitzGerald will 
continue to file salary assignments with the committee as vouchers are 
issued, and that restitution of these funds will be made promptly on receipt 
of government salary checks. 

The Executive Secretary read a telegram from David F. Houston, 
secretary of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, in which Mr. Flouston 
regretfully declined the committee's invitation to come to Cleveland under 
its auspices on or about October 22d, to participate in a Food Conservation 
demonstration. The Executive Secretary reported that to date he had 
received no reply from Food Administrator Hoover, who was sent a 
similar invitation. 

When the Executive Secretary reported the generous manner in which 
Mr. Bryan, of the Thos. Cusack Co., had agreed to alter temporarily the 
Public Square food conservation sign so that it will carry, until the close 
of the Liberty Loan campaign, a Liberty Loan message, rather than the 
slogan of the U. S. Food Administration, he was directed to convey to 
Mr. Bryan the fact that the committee unanimously voted him its sincere 
thanks. 

Mr. Mooney reported the result of a recent conference he had with 
Dr. Frank E. Spaulding, superintendent of schools, and A. W. Castle, his 
assistant, on the subject of the question of the Mayor's Advisory War 
Committee's policy toward evening classes in English in parochial school 
buildings. Mr. Mooney stated that Messrs. Spaulding and Castle seemed 
of the opinion that both the moral and financial responsibility of assign- 
ing acceptable teachers to such classes should be reposed in the Mayor's 
Advisory War Committee. Whereupon the Executive Secretary v/as 
directed to request Mr. Spaulding or Mr. Castle, or both, to be present at 
the next meeting of the committee, to further discuss the matter, and to 
present a budget estimating the expense of such an arrangement. 

At this point, Mr. Alva Bradiey, representing the finance committee of 
the Cuyahoga County Food Conservation Campaign Committee entered 
the room, and presented the need of the committee to raise by some 
method the expense of a publicity campaign of education in conservation, 
through newspaper advertisements and printed matter generally. He 
pointed out that it might be difficult to raise the funds needed (which he 
estimated would be not less than $10,000 nor more than $15,000) at the 
present time, when the Liberty Loan campaign is at its height and a Y. 
M. C. A. money-raising campaign is impending. Following general discus- 
sion, it was unanimously voted that the Mayor's Advisory War Committee 
should bear this expense, especially in view of the action toward Mr. 
Norths' committee it had taken earlier in the meeting. Mr. Bradley was 
asked to present at the next meeting a budget outlining the manner in 
which his committee expected to expend this money. 

In view of this action, the Executive Secretary was directed to ask 
the Red Cross for $35,000, rather than the $25,000 decided on earlier in 
the meeting. 

Mr. J. B. Hebberd, representing the War Department Commission on 
Trading Camp Activities at Montgomery, where 5,000 Cleveland troops 
are being trained, then entered the room and proceeded to give a general 
outline of the situation there, the activities to date of his department and 
the Montgomery Chamber of Com.merce, and the problems in the solution 

134 



of which he seeks the moral and financial assistance of this committee. 
He dwelt at length on the service this committee could render in the way 
of lending its influence and co-operation in securing Cleveland musical, 
literary and general entertainment and recreation talent for the entertain- 
ment of the soldiers at Camp Sheridan, and went on to tell of his need for 
financial assistance in securing, for instance, the flooring of a large build- 
ing within the camp which the government is willing to turn over to him 
as an auditorium for such entertainments; the establishment of a down 
town club house for the soldiers; the purchase of athletic equipment for 
units which have none, and no money with which to buy it; the employ- 
ment of an Ohio man to assist him in looking after, particularly, the 
interests of Cleveland and Ohio soldiers, etc. 

In the discussion which followed, it was the general sentiment that 
this committee could properly expend its funds for such purposes as the 
establishment within the city of Montgomery of a club house for the 
particular use of soldiers from Cleveland, and the defraying of the ex- 
pense, or a part of it, of maintaining an assistant to Mr. Hebberd charged 
particularly with looking out for the welfare of Ohio soldiers, especially 
those from Cleveland. Mr. Hebberd was requested to present to the com- 
mittee, at an early meeting, a definite proposal covering these points. He 
was assured of the co-operation of this committee in his efforts to secure 
the services of Cleveland talent for the entertainment of soldiers at Mont- 
gomery, and it was pointed out to him that Mr. Allen T. Burns, secretary 
of this Committee's Sub-Committee on Recreation for Training Camps, 
would gladly render him concrete service. 

The meeting adjourned at 4:20 P. M. 

SAM B. ANSON, 
Executive Secretary. 



135 



REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE TO DATE 

(Read at Special Executive Committee Meeting, October 18th) 



Previous Distribution 

( 1 ) Executive $ 1,785.85 

( 2 ) War Garden 3,891.30 

( 3 ) General Office 4,702.95 

( 4 ) Publicity 1,771.82 

( 5 ) County Food Commissioner 20,187.47 

( 6 ) Military Committee 5,591.72 

(7) Women's Committee 1,235.37 

( 8 ) Americanization Committee 4,225.65 

( 9 ) County Draft Board 3,575.21 

(10) A. P. L 855.62 

Bills Payable 20,258.64 



$68,081.60 



Distributions of October 18, 1917 

Check Account 

No. In Favor of Char 

159 Yawman & Erbe Mfg .Co No. 

160 Howard Schaffer No. 

161 Gray Lumber Co No. 

162 S. A. Stedronsky No. 

163 K. McCallig No. 

164 G. B. Scrambling No. 

165 W. K. Patterson No. 

166 W. E. Price No. 

167 H. C. Avellane No. 



fed 


Amt. 


8.... 


, ..$ .30 


3.... 


, . . 7.50 


8..., 


,.. 1.54 


6..., 


. . . 7.45 


3.... 


, . . 42.00 


6.... 


, . . 14.00 


6.... 


, . . 5.45 


6.... 


, . . 8.45 


6.... 


,.. 105.00 



$ 191.69 



Total distributions to date $68,273.29 

Audited October 18, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commissioner of 
Accounts. 



136 



Meeting of the Executive Committee 
October 23, 1917 

A meeting of the Executive Committee was held on Tuesday, October 
23rd, at 12 :00 o'clock in dining room No. 2, Chamber of Commerce. 

Present, Chairman Herrick, Messrs. Feiss, Adams, Greenlund and 
Mooney. 

Reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was dispensed with. 

Dr. Spaulding, Superintendent of Schools, and Mr. Castle, his assis- 
tant, appeared before the committee and presented the school board's side 
of the proposition to have the Mayor's Advisory War Committee assume 
both the moral and financial responsibility of establishing night schools in 
English in parochial schools. After considerable discussion it was de- 
cided to refer the whole question to the Sub-Committee on Americaniza- 
tion with a request that it present to the next meeting of the Executive 
Committee a definite proposal covering both the scheme of organization 
and management of these English classes and the cost of same. It was 
the sense of the meeting that if the Mayor's Advisory War Committee 
assumes the financing of such classes that not only should a sufficient 
amount of money be appropriated to take care of such classes as are 
already asked for, but also to take care of additional classes that may be 
requested. 

It was also agreed, in the event of such action, the appropriation in- 
volved should not be limited merely to the conduct of such classes in 
Catholic parochial schools but that parochial schools of all denominations 
be furnished with instructors, etc., if they made proper application and 
demonstrate that they meet the conditions regarding attendance, etc., 
imposed by the Board of Education. Mr. Castle estimated that the cost 
of these night classes would be within $200 for a term of 24 weeks per 
class. He was unable to estimate the total number of classes that may 
be petitioned for. 

Mr. Geo. A. Schneider, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on War 
Gardens, presented the following recommendations, covering his commit- 
tee's activities this winter : 

Recommendations to be made to the Board of Education: 

1. That the War Garden Committee submit a series of 10 
lectures to be given in evening schools. 

2. That the Board of Education supply the buildings, heat, 
light, etc., free of cost to the War Board. 

3. That the Board of Education use the same means to bring 
the lectures before the public that it uses to advertise the night 
schools. 

4. That all lectures be given without expense to the Board of 
Education except as mentioned in suggestion 2. 

5. That no fees be charged the general public for such lectures. 

6. That the lectures be arranged and planned by the joint 
ECtion of the Garden Committee and the supervisors of night schools, 
l-'ecommendation for general publicity and lectures on War Gardens 
for next session: 

1. Prepare series of 10 lectures on topics following: 

1. The use of the Cold Frame and Hot Bed in Gardening. 

2. Transplanting and Preparing for an Early Crop. 

3. Planning the Garden. and What to Plant. 

4. Preparing the Ground. 

5. Manure, Fertilizer and Lime and How to Use Them. 

6. Maintaining a proper Moisture supply. 

7. Suggestions on Growing Cabbage, Cauliflower, Broc- 

coli, etc. 

8. Potato Growing. 

9. Sweet Corn Growing. 
10. Methods of cultivation. 

2. Establish centers for giving lectures. Fix time and place 
of meeting. 

3. Inform gardeners and general public regarding places of 
meeting — Nature of lectures — Purpose of War Garden Committee. 

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4. Secure enrollment for lectures. 

5. Organize Garden Clubs for the purpose of disseminating garden 
information. 

6. Begin lectures ISth of January and close season by April 1st. 

7. Prepare for season of 1918 by securing lots — gardeners, etc., 
at an early date. 

8. Arrange for immediate distribution of manure. 

The recommendations were unanimously approved. 

At Mr. Schneider's suggestion the Executive Secretary was authorized 
to make with Mr. Knirk an arrangement whereby he would continue, for 
the next year at least, in active charge of the War Gardens. Mr. Schneider 
reported that Mr. Knirk was willing to do so at $1,800 a year. The 
Executive Secretary was authorized to offer, at a fair price to be estab- 
lished by him and Mr. Knirk, the services of the latter to such persons 
who may this winter feel the need of such assistance; all receipts from 
such sale of Mr. Knirk's services to be credited to the Committee's funds. 

Harold D. North, Chairman of the Cuyahoga County Food Con- 
servation Campaign Committee, presented the following budget covering 
expenditures his Committee wishes to make during Food Conservation 
week, October 29th to November 8th. 

ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES FOR WEEK OF OCTOBER 28th 
TO NOVEMBER 4th 
Advertising : 

Newspaper space, foreign $1,000.00 

English 7,000.00 

County 200.00 $ 8,200.00 

Billboards 1,500.00 

Street cars 500.00 

Stores 1,500.00 

Window Display 250.00 

Special Printing 500.00 4,250.00 

Office Expenses: 

Stenographer 75.00 

Publicity 200.00 

Errand Boys (3) 75.00 

Clerk 100.00 

Secretary 200.00 

Miscellaneous items — stationery, postage, telegrams, etc... 1,500.00 2,150.00 

County Expenses: 

Distribution of campaign literature, Special printing, etc.. 400.00 

$15,000.00 

The budget, on motion of Mr. Feiss, seconded by Mr. Adams, was 
unanimously approved. Mr. North also formally accepted this Commit- 
tee's invitation to become Chairman of its Committee on Food Conserva- 
tion and as such to take over all the present activities of the Mayor's 
Advisory War Committee along these lines with the single exception of 
the Food Conservation propaganda which is being conducted under the 
direction of the Sub-Committee on Women's Activities, which, it was 
understood, will continue to work in close co-operation with Mr. North 
and his committee. 

The Executive Secretary read the following communication addressed 
to him by Mrs. Edward L. Harris, State Regent of the D. A. R., request- 
ing that the Committee reconsider its action at the meeting of October 
ISth when it decided adversely upon consideration of a request for a 
$6,000.00 loan toward the funds necessary for beginning of immediate 
construction of a "Hostess House" the D. A. R. plans to operate within 
the cantonment at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe. 

"In reply to my request on behalf of the Daughters of the 
American Revolution for a loan of $6,000 from the Mayor's War 
Fund, you say that the committee held that it has no authority to 
so use its funds because of the purely local trust reposed in it. 

"Believing that the members of the Executive Committee will give 
this matter more favorable consideration if they understand it better, 
I wish to emphasize certain phases not explained in my previous com- 
munication. 

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"The Daughters of the American Revolution have a Government 
charter, and report to the Government annually. They have an active 
national membership of 100,000, of whom 5,000 are in Ohio. 

"When we heard that a large cantonment was to be located in 
Ohio I had a personal interview with Secretary of War Baker. Ohio 
Daughters wanted him to know that they were ready for service to 
this country and State, and hoped they would be called upon. 

"I was given a letter to Mr. Raymond B. Fosdick, Chairman 
War Department's Commission on Training Camp Activities, express- 
ing confidence in our society and commending us to him. Several 
letters from this department were received during the summer, and 
we were assured that there would be work for us in the fall. Finally 
on September 13th, Mr. Spencer R. Gordon, in charge of camp activi- 
ties at Chillicothe, came to our State Board meeting in Columbus with 
a personal invitation from Major General Glenn to our Ohio Society 
to build and maintain a house on Government ground for the accom- 
modation and protection of women visitors to the camp, said house 
to cost $12,000. We voted unanimously to accept. 

"My first message to the chapters brought responses of interest 
and co-operation, with requests from many for extension of time in 
which to gather funds because of the depleted treasury conditions due 
to investigating in Liberty Bonds, adopting French war orphans and 
buying large quantities of yarn for knitting warm garments for the 
sailors. 

"There is no doubt about getting the entire amount — some chap- 
ters have already met their quota — the Daughters always keep their 
word. Half of the amount is in sight — $6.000 — and $3,000 on deposit 
in a Chillicothe bank. I am asking for the loan in order to begin at 
once the building, which, according to General Glenn, 'is one of the 
greatest needs of the camp.' We do not expect to do a charity busi- 
ness; if there is a deficit, we shall be able to meet it from renting 
the rooms. 

"Cleveland has sent many men to Camp Sherman, and there are 
hundreds of Cleveland mothers who will be glad of our hospitality. I 
believe the big-hearted, patriotic men of the Executive Committee will 
find some way to connect this loan with the Cleveland women rela- 
tives of our Cleveland soldiers; perhaps they will even see some way 
to make part of it a gift for a Cleveland wing or small entertainment 
hall. 

"Next week occurs the nineteenth annual State Conference of 
the D. A. R. in Dayton. Among other speakers will be Major Gen- 
eral Glenn. We expect to make this a grand rally for the D. A. R. 
hostess house at Camp Sherman." 

After considerable discussion, it was finally decided that before taking 
definite further action the Executive Secretary should go to Camp Sher- 
man, and consult with Alajor General Glenn, concerning this plan of the 
D. A. R. and similar propositions from other organizations he may 
be considering. It was the sentiment of the meeting that, in the case of 
an eventual decision to advance these funds to the D. A. R., it should be 
arranged to have the loan made directly by a bank, with this committee 
appearing in the transaction only as endorser. 

The Executive Secretary was instructed to consult with Camp Sher- 
man authorities, upon the occasion of his visit there in connection with 
the D. A. R.'s request, concerning possibilities that may exist there for 
the Mayor's Advisory War Committee co-operating in the way of financ- 
ing recreational activities for the soldiers after the manner it has agreed 
to do for the soldiers at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery. 

An invitation from Capt. Shupe, who is organizing the Liberty Loan 
demonstration and parade on the evening of October 24th in honor of the 
visit here of James W. Gerard, former Ambassador to Germany, was ac- 
cepted, it being the sentiment of the meeting that as many members of 
the Mayor's Advisory War Committee as find it convenient should march 
in the parade. 

Upon the Executive Secretary's presentation of Mr. Vail's request that 
a further honorarium be voted Mr. Marks, Secretary of the Sub-Com- 
mittee on Patriotism, it was decided, rather than to vote the further 
honorarium, to place Mr. Marks regularlv on the payroll at the rate of 
$100.00 per month. 

The Executive Secretary read the following letter from Lewis 
Strauss, secretary to Food Administrator Hoover anent the Committee's 

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invitation to him to come to Cleveland on or about October 22nd when 
he was scheduled to make an address at the National Dairy Show at 
Columbus : 

"Mr. Hoover is not at all certain that he will be able to make 
his trip to the National Dairy Show at Columbus on October 22nd, 
and the engagement was tentatively made, subject to conditions neces- 
sitating his presence here in Washington. 

"In view of that fact, he does not think it wise that you should 
make any arrangements for his reception, as they would all be con- 
tingent on conditions which at present are very unfavorable for his 
getting away." 

The Executive Secretary reported that he had sent the following tele- 
gram in reply to Mr. Strauss: 

"Letter informing us of uncertainty of Mr. Hoover being 
able to keep Columbus engagement October twenty-second re- 
ceived. Will you urge upon Mr. Hoover this : if he finally 
decides to go to Columbus will he not if at all consistent with 
plans arrange to stop off if only for a few hours in Cleveland. 
We can make adequate arrangements for food conservation meet- 
ing given only twenty-four hours notice." 

The meeting adjourned at 2:15 P. M. 

SAM B. ANSON, 

Executive Secretary. 



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Meeting of the General Mayor's Advisory 
War Committee 
October 23, 1917 

The meeting was called to order at 3 :30 P. M., in Room 303, City 
Hall, by the Chairman, Hon. Myron T. Herrick. The Executive Secre- 
tary, Mr. Sam B. Anson, called the roll. 

THE CHAIRMAN : You are asked to come here today and hear 
the reports of the different committees, and we will immediately proceed 
to the calling of the different heads of the different committees, and I 
think that we will get a very good idea of what has been accomplished 
since our last meeting. I call first upon Mr. Harold T. Clark, of the 
Americanization Committee. 

MR. CLARK : Mr. Chairman, and members of the Committee, with 
your permission, I would like to divide my time with Mrs. J. N. Fleming, 
Chairman of the Women's Americanization Committee, because they have 
been working hand in hand with our Committee. 

The first activity started by our Committee was the establishment of 
an Americanization Information Bureau for the purpose of interpreting 
all war measures to the non-English speaking residents of Cleveland, and 
especially to those affected by the Selective Draft. 

I think the Bureau which we organized in Cleveland has proved tre- 
mendously successful. I have in my hand the report from July 14th to 
October 15th, which I will hand to the Secretary, showing that there have 
been 8,841 individuals served, with a total of kinds of service rendered of 
21,101. 

This Bureau has attracted so much attention that we have received 
letters from New York, from Boston, from Detroit, and from other cities, 
which are now trying to establish similar bureaus. We have used at this 
Bureau, in addition to the three paid mem.bers of the staff, 134 volunteer 
workers, for interpreting matters to men and women who did not speak 
English. 

Taking up the public school situation, the first need was for trained 
teachers. To meet this need, during the summer a course was laid out by 
Professor Raymond Moley, Educational Secretary of this Committee, who, 
working in co-operation with Dr. A. W. Castle, Assistant Superintendent 
of Schools in charge of the Division of Educational Extension, laid out a 
plan for training teachers, and established a course which was held at the 
Normal School two weeks before the night schools began. More than 500 
teachers took the course. It was so successful that the course has been 
extended, and will be carried on to some extent during the year. 

The next matter was the improving of the methods of instruction, 
which have been entirely changed from the old plan. Next was the ques- 
tion of working out naturalization classes and courses for training in the 
principles of citizenship. Professor Moley has worked out an entirely new 
syllabus on that, which will be used not only in Cleveland but elsewhere. 

Two weeks before the schools opened there was conducted an "Amer- 
ica First" campaign, to obtain the support of employers and to reach by 
every possible means those who needed to attend English or citizenship 
classes. We have not yet received the final figures from the Board of 
Education, but it may be said at this time that in spite of difficulties of 
various kinds arising from the existence of the war, they show a very sub- 
stantial increase over previous years. Mrs. J. N. Fleming will report on 
what has been done on factory classes, where the women's work has been 
especially helpful. 

I can announce at this time that the McBride Lecture Foundation of 
Western Reserve University has agreed to give several Americanization 
lectures this year. We haven't finally decided on the place, but I hope it 
will be the Giamber of Commerce Building. The Trustees are very anx- 
ious to have that fund, which bears the name of Mr. J. H. McBride, one 

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of Cleveland's foremost citizens, linked up with the Americanization 
movement. 

We have issued a pamphlet entitled "Industrial Americanization : What 
It Is. Why Industries Should do Americanization War Service." This 
pamphlet has been greeted in many quarters as a very valuable contribution 
to Americanization literature. Superintendent Spaulding is sending out 
now a letter to 500 of the largest employers of labor in Cleveland, empha- 
sizing the importance of Industrial Americanization as set forth in this 
pamphlet, and has assigned one of his assistants, Dr. E. P. Wiles, to take 
special charge of the organization of factory and other similar Americani- 
zation classes. 

To the members of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee and to all 
other public spirited citizens of Cleveland who may be interested in know- 
ing what Americanization work is being done or is to be done, I wish to 
announce that there is to be held in this room next Tuesday, October 
30th, at 3 :30 o'clock, a special Americanization meeting, at which the men's 
and women's committees are to meet together and hear reports from those 
who are actually coming into contact with our foreign-born citizens. 

At this time I will ask Mrs. Fleming to report upon the work of her 
committee. I believe that Cleveland leads the cities of the country in 
the Americanization work that is being done by women. Other cities have 
started the men's work first, and then come back to and organized the 
women's. I think the situation in Cleveland, where both were organized 
together and as parts of one large work, shows that here we started right. 
I believe that Cleveland leads the country today in Americanization work 
by and among women. 

AMERICANIZATION INFORMATION BUREAU STATISTICAL 

REPORT 

(Summary) 
JULY 14 TO OCTOBER 15, 1917 

Draft Information given in various languages 769 

Number of affidavits filled out 10,642 

Number of notary services rendered 7,930 

Number referred to English classes 224 

Number referred to Citizenship classes 48 

Applications for First Papers filled out 40S 

Applications for Second Papers filled out 62 

Applications for Library cards 381 

Special cases referred to public agencies 486 

Special cases referred to civic agencies 232 

Total kinds of services rendered 21,101 

Total number of individuals served 8,841 

Number of volunteers used 134 

Total hours of services rendered by volunteers 954 

REPORT OF THE AMERICANIZATION INFORMATION 
BUREAU 

SEPTEMBER 15 TO OCTOBER 15, 1917 

During the past month there has been several developments in the Americaniza- 
tion Information Bureau. Late in September, on account of the delayed opening of 
Common Pleas Court, the Draft Boards were obliged to move their headquarters to 
Central Armory from the New Court House. At their new location, the boards are 
organizing under the centralization plan suggested by the Bureau some time previous, 
and the routine work for all the Boards is being cared for by one set of clerks. The 
chief difficulty has been that only eight of the twenty boards have agreed upon this 
plan, and the others have scattered to various parts of the city. It is hoped that on 
the success of the present arrangement, others will rejoin them at the Central Armory. 

The Americanization Information Bureau moved its branch office with the Draft 
Board to the Central Armory, where we performed free affidavit and notary service, as 
formerly for the local boards. This has been performed for the aliens and non-English 
speaking men, who have failed to obey orders for entrainment and neglected to leave 
for camp on time. As necessarily the boards have been disorganized on account of 
moving, due to the centralization plan, the affidavit work has been somewhat light. 
However, in view of the second draft soon to come, the services of the Bureau will 
again be in great demand. 

During the past month the staff of the Bureau have spent much of their efforts 
in the organization of the "America First" campaign, for enrolling students in public 
night schools. The Bureau had complete charge of the distribution of printed mate- 

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rial, posters, display cards and circulars for that campaign. The city was divided into 
eleven districts, with a captain in each to direct the most effective distribution of the 
literature and to arrange for securing the necessary .publicity through the churches, 
societies, factories, social agencies, etc. This method of organization proved a great 
success. Conferences were held with most of the foreign newspaper editors in order 
that the utmost publicity possible be secured through their columns. 

In addition, a large part of the clerical work involved in the mailing out of the 
circular letters to churches, saloons, societies, etc., was cared for by the Bureau. Over 
eight thousand letters urging night school attendance were sent to all the non-English 
speaking served by the Bureau. The Bureau has also assisted the Supervisor of Citi- 
zenship of Extension Schools in mailing letters urging attendance at Citizenship classes 
to all men who have taken out their First Papers in the last two years, or who have 
failed in their Naturalization examinations recently. At the present time, all non- 
English speaking men or men desiring Citizenship are referred personally to the public 
school in their neighborhood for attendance. 

Upon the opening of the Second Liberty Bond campaign, arrangements were made 
through that Committee for the Americanization Information Bureau to take applica- 
tions. Up to the present time Liberty Bonds to the amount of $1,300 have been pur- 
chased through the Bureau. We also have been able to be of service to the Committee 
in many other ways. The facilities of the Bureau have been used in the campaign to 
reach the foreign-born population with the Liberty Bond message. Our prepared lists 
of churches, foreign editors, societies, etc., was utilized by the Liberty Bond Commit- 
tee in organizing the large mass meetings. Suggestions of possible speakers on the 
Liberty Bond in the foreign languages were made. Possible captains for the New and 
Old Court Houses and the City Hall have been suggested by the Bureau. Two numbers 
of the War Information Service have also been sent out on the subject. Two of the 
staff acted as canvassers at a Citizenship reception to newly naturalized citizens held 
in the New Court House recently. 

The War Information Service has proved a valuable mode of publicity in the 
America First campaign; supplemental literature was sent out with good results. In 
addition, there has been mailed several numbers upon The Draft, Industrial Americani- 
zation, and kindred subjects, together with related printed matter. It is planned within 
the next month to conclude a number on war organization, both of the Nation and in 
Cleveland. This material is greatly needed, as at the present time there is no reliable 
source for securing this information. 

_ During the past month three meetings have been held of the Conference of Ameri- 
canization workers. These meetings have been very valuable in suggesting plans and 
methods for the co-operation of the various agencies represented for the Americaniza- 
tion of Cleveland's foreign-born population. Necessarily, a great deal of time has been 
spent in discussing the America First campaign and the way each agency could be of 
greater assistance. Doubtless a share of the success of that campaign is due to the 
suggestions from the workers there. It is planned for the coming month for each 
organization represented to tell of their plans for the coming year, in order that all 
may co-operate for their greater success. 

During the absence of the Secretary of the Americanization Committee, the Sec- 
retary of the Americanization Information Bureau served as Acting Secretary of the 
Committee. 

THE AMERICANIZATION INFORMATION BUREAU 
STATISTICAL REPORT 

SEPTEMBER 15, 1917, TO OCTOBER IS, 1917 

Draft information given in various languages 168 

Number of affidavits filled out 1,355 

Number of notary services rendered 878 

Number referred to English classes 172 

Number referred to Citizenship classes 12 

Applications for First Papers filled out 28 

Applications for Second Papers filled out 7 

Applications for Library Cards 24 

Special cases referred to public agencies 165 

Special cases referred to social and civic agencies 96 

Total kinds of services rendered 2,905 

Total number of individuals served 1,260 

Number of volunteers used 25 

Total hours of services rendered by volunteers 188 

THE CHAIRMAN : Mrs. Fleming. 

MRS. FLEMING: Mr. Chairman, and members of the Committee: 
The first work put up to the Women's Committee after obtaining the 
services of Miss Bacon, whom we secured in Detroit, was helping Mr. 
Castle to obtain people to take the training course at the Normal School. 
He told us he wanted three hundred, that he anticipated fifty, and we said 
we knew we could get him more than that. So we sent out the application 
blanks to such women's organizations as the College Club, the Alumnae 
of Western Reserve, the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, and the Nor- 



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mal School Alumnse, with all of whom we were m touch. The blanks did 
not return to our desk, so we had no means of knowing how many of the 
five hundred blanks we distributed in that way were returned, but we do 
know the result was this splendid class at the Normal School, and we 
think that we put the blanks and the information in the hands of the 
people who would be most interested in it. 

In the America First campaign, through the services of Miss Bell 
of the Associated Charities, we had issued a special handbill to go into 
the homes, which would appeal to the woman herself : "Can you speak 
English with your husband and children?" We felt that a special handbill 
for the women would be effective, and 13,000 of those are being distributed. 
A good many have already gone out, and the others are in the hands of 
the welfare workers for distribution directly in the homes. 

This we have felt has helped very much in bringing the women into 
the Americanization classes. There are twelve classes already under way, 
many of which Miss Bacon has been instrumental in forming. The classes 
which are held for men and wom.en jointly are two at the H. Black Com- 
pany, two citizenship classes at the Joseph & Feiss Company, an evening 
class for men and women at Woodland School, three classes for men and 
women at St. Mary's of the Nativity, one class for men and women at the 
Greek Church. Then we have, in addition, three classes for women alone, 
one at the Carnegie Library, one at Central Friendly Inn, and one at East 
End Neighborhood House, where workers are caring for children while the 
women are learning English. There are four classes for men and women, 
ity of the principal. The second is as to the reasonableness of the income, 
and three in factories, and another class for mothers, at a library, will be 
started next week. So that makes a total of sixteen classes already under 
way. 

In addition to this, we have another branch of the work which, through 
the co-operation of the International Institute of the Y. W. C. A., we hope 
to start next week. With the approval of Dr. Spaulding, three interpreters 
who are in the service of the Y. W. C. A. International Institute are to 
hold definite office hours in three schools of the city — one at St. Clair, one 
at Longwood, and one at Tremont School — from 2 to 3 o'clock Tuesday 
and Thursday, and also in the evening, to give out information to mothers. 

I have been about the schools a good bit in connection with another 
philanthrophy in which I was interested, and I think one of the most piti- 
ful things I saw was the mother who came to the school to talk to the 
teacher, possibly about some misdemeanor of a small child, and had to 
have that child act as interpreter. The right interpretation, I imagine, was 
not always given, and it was rather humiliating to the mother. And we 
hope these interpreters will be able to act in this connection, and will be 
very helpful. And for us it will be helpful, too, because it will get us in 
touch with the mothers in the neighborhood. 

Through these interpreters we are working in connection with the 
International Institute and are visiting in the homes, and their co-operation 
is going to be very helpful, we feel, in bringing the women into the classes. 
We are anticipating something in the nature of a follow-up campaign 
around the classes already formed, to increase the attendance and pos- 
sibly to form other groups. 

The work was presented last week before an audience partly of 
Akron women and representatives from the Y. W. C. A. and delegates 
from other parts of the state, about one hundred and twenty-five attend- 
ing. They were very enthusiastic and anxious to know what Cleveland 
was doing, and I have already had applications from three of the sur- 
rounding towns to come and tell them what our Cleveland women are 
doing. So that the work that we are doing here has been spread through- 
out the state by these means, and I know that other places are looking to 
us for help and information in regard to starting this same work for 
women in their communities. 

THE CHAIRMAN : I suggest that the work of this Committee has 
demonstrated so great a need for this education that it ought to make us 



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all ashamed that in times of peace we have so neglected this important 
feature in the education of our population. An officer told me the other 
day, who was at Chillicothe, Camp Sherman, that it was a great surprise 
to all of them to find that a great number of the drafted men couldn't 
speak the English language. It was rather pathetic. 

I suggest that this report be approved, accepted, and that a special 
commendation be given this Committee for this most intelligent and active 
work. All in favor of that motion will say aye. 

The motion was carried unanimously. 

THE CHAIRMAN: The report of the Military Committee— Cap- 
tain Shupe. 

CAPTAIN SHUPE: Mr. Chairman, I have been rather busy, and 
haven't had time to make out a written report. However, since the last 
meeting which you had here, the Committee has been rather active. 
Among the things which we have taken up and accomplished, in addition 
to the recruiting which I referred to at the last meeting, was the housing 
and care of the National Guard troops after they were called to the serv- 
ice of the Federal Government. We provided tents, blankets, cots and a 
number of other things to make the troops entirely comfortable until they 
were moved to their concentration camps. 

Your Committee, on behalf of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee, 
also presented to the regiment of Engineers a stand of colors, they being 
without colors. 

In the Selective Service matter, we of course think that some of you 
participated in the parade which we gave, and which I think was rather 
successful. 

The District Boards on the drafted men asked the Committee to take 
charge of the mobilization and entrainment of the men who were drafted 
and had to be moved to Chillicothe to their cantonments. So far we have 
moved in special trains about seventy-five hundred of these troops, sending 
with each train an officer of some military experience. We also provided 
box lunches for all the men on the trains, so that they were not obliged 
to get off and get scattered. I am glad to say that we have delivered to 
Chillicothe about seventy-six hundred men without a single accident of 
any kind happening to them. 

The 331st Regiment in Chillicothe is composed entirely of Cleveland 
drafted men. The Committee has just received permission of the War 
Department to present th-^m with a stand of national and regimental 
colors, so that they may know that Cleveland has not forgotten them, but 
still thinks very kindly of them. 

We have also, in co-operation with Mr. Schneider and the Athletic 
Committee, been able to provide them with a number of musical instru- 
ments, so that they can have a band of their own, and I have a letter from 
the colonel of the regiment thanking us for the interest which we have 
taken in them. 

At the request of the Committee, I returned just yesterday morning 
from a trip to the Rainbow Division at Mineola, Long Island, where the 
166th, formerly the Fourth Ohio Regiment, is in camp. Previous to my 
visit, there had been some rumors that the men hadn't been provided with 
sufficient necessities and had been neglected. However, on talking to the 
men and the officers, I found that they were amply provided with every- 
thing that was necessary to their comfort and welfare ; that the Red Cross 
had performed a wonderful work : they had provided each man of the 
Rainbow Division, going to France, a sweater, two pairs of knitted socks, 
a helmet and wristlets, which they regard very highly. The men were all 
in good spirits, and felt very much pleased that they were soon to be on 
the other side of the water. 

That is about all we have done, although I would like to call your 
attention to the Liberty Loan parade tomorrow night. At the request of 
the Liberty Loan Committee, our Committee has taken charge of the 
parade, and from the indications today, I think there will be at least 25,000 

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men and ladies. The Red Cross division, I was informed this afternoon, 
will have 2,000 Red Cross ladies in line, with Red Cross uniforms. There 
will be all together 5,000 Red Cross ladies parading tomorrow night. 

I sent to each member of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee an 
invitation to act on the escort. I am sorry to say that up to the present 
time I have received replies from just one, accepting. I trust that this is 
an oversight on the part of the members, and that they all intend to be 
there, because it is the intention of the Committee to make this a very 
patriotic affair, and I think every one of you can afford to give_ up an 
hour or two tomorrow evening and march. The line of march is very 
short — from Twenty-second street to the Central Armory. I would like 
to see every one of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee there, including 
the ladies. 

THE CHAIRMAN : I will say to Captain Shupe that my reputation 
was almost ruined by participating in his last parade. They accused me of 
wearing a straw hat out of season, and of chewing gum, and they had 
a moving picture to prove it. I am sorry I will have to be in Hartford 
tomorrow night, but I hope all the rest of them will come and march, and 
not wear straw hats. 

I don't know exactly what Captain Shupe's business is, but I am sure 
he has neglected it ever since he has been on this Committee, because he 
has been on the job all the time; and I ask you for the same reference of 
his report as that made of the report of the Americanization Committee. 
All in favor say aye. 

The motion was carried unanimously. 

THE CHAIRMAN : We will now hear the report of the Committee 
on War Gardens — Mr. George A. Schneider. 

Mr. Schneider then read the report of the Committee on War Gar- 
dens, as follows : 

On April 16th, 1917, Mayor Davis appointed what has since been 
known as the War Garden Committee, the personnel of same being as 
follows : 

Geo. A. Schneider — Chairman 

R. C. Wright — Vice Chairman 

Perry J. Darling — Secretary 

Allen T. Burns 
Starr Cadwallader 
R. H. Cowdery 
Mrs. J. N. Fleming 
C. E. Kendel 
Mrs. E. C. T. Miller 
Mrs. Chas. A. Otis 
John J. Wood 

The Executive Committee of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee 
authorized a budget of $10,000 for necessary expenditures of the War Gar- 
den Committee. The latter Committee, with the approval of the Execu- 
tive Committee, appointed Mr. Carl F. Knirk as Director of War Gardens, 
also four men and one woman, all of whom were technically and scientifi- 
cally trained in food gardening, to aid in guiding and supervising Cleve- 
land War Gardens. 

The aims and purposes of the War Garden Committee can best be 
stated by quoting from bulletin and announcement which was issued 
immediately after organization and which read in part as follows : 

"The purpose of the War Garden Committee is, first of all, to 
arouse the people of Cleveland to a realization of the dangerous food 
shortage which confronts us at a time when this country must feed 
more people than ever before and to show them how to help meet this 



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situation. People in general do not realize the danger of the present 
condition, and it has devolved en this Committee, through the help of 
the newspapers, to urge upon the people the necessity of producing 
more food." 

The extensiveness of the task thus set for the Committee can also be 
realized by quoting again from the bulletin : 

"To successfully accomplish the work assigned us, it is necessary: 
first, to locate land for gardening; second, to examine and test it for 
suitability; third, to find people to plant and till it; fourth, to assign 
it to best suit the convenience of these volunteer gardeners — a task 
in itself of huge proportions — and fifth, the preparation of pamphlets 
telling just what to plant, how and when to plant it, as well as how 
much to plant for certain size plots." 

Except for the splendid co-operation which came from many sources, 
the task which this Committee set itself, could never have been even 
approximated. 

First of all, the local newspapers, in almost every issue, carried War 
Garden stories which aimed to stimulate interest in gardening, instruct 
gardeners in the methods of planting, cultivating, fertilizing and harvest 
ing, and inspire the workers with a desire to accomplish much. 

Secondly : many private and civic institutions gave assistance in many 
ways. Among them should be mentioned the Rotary Club, which provided 
one thousand signs reading "War Garden — Help Guard It;" The Empire 
Plow Co., which furnished plows ; The Cleveland Motor Plow Co., which 
plowed a number of large garden tracts; The Cleveland Builders' Supply 
Co., and Brown Brothers, who supplied teams for plowing. 

The Chairman of the Committee desires to pay particular tribute to 
the efficient efforts of Messrs. Perry J. Darhng and R. C. Wright, Secre- 
tary and Vice Chairman, respectively, of our Committee. Both of these 
gentlemen donated from six to eight hours per day for several months, at 
the Committee's headquarters in the City Hall, supervising the many and 
important details in connection with the Committee's work. The Chair- 
man also desires to express his hearty appreciation of the interest evi- 
denced and valuable co-operation given by every member of the Com- 
mittee in attending meetings and looking after such special work as was 
assigned them. Director Knirk and his five assistants must also be com- 
mended for their efficient efforts throughout the season. 

There were two distinct War Garden movements : the Home Garden 
and the Vacant Lot Garden. Each of these movements involved several 
distinct steps. In the Home Gardens they were : receiving and listing the 
garden, inspection of the soil, planting recommendations, advice and direc- 
tion regarding cultivation and spraying. In the Vacant Lots the steps were : 
receiving donations, receiving the names of applicants who wished to work 
vacant lots, inspection of vacant lots, assigning vacant lots to gardeners, 
securing plowing and advising and directing the gardeners in their work. 

The War Garden Work was undoubtedly of most value through the 
service rendered gardeners in the form of direction and advice. Six dis- 
tinct factors entered into this service. The daily newspapers reached 
thousands of gardeners through the many farm and garden stories carried 
almost daily. Under the supervision of a sub-committee consisting of 
Messrs. Cadwallader, Cowdery, Kendel and Knirk, four timely bulletins 
were issued, a copy of each being filed* with this report. The titles were 
as follows : 

Plant a War Garden 
Plant it Right. 

Suggestions on the Control of 
Plant Diseases and Pests. 

Home Storage Methods 

Suggestions for Drying Fruits 

and Vegetables. 

Fall Garden Bulletin 
Prepare for Next Year's Garden. 



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Following the suggestions of this Committee, co-operative garden 
movements were inaugurated in several communities, including East 
Cleveland, Collinwood, Cleveland Heights, Bratenahl, Shaker Heights, 
Lakewood, Rosedale School District, Hodge School, Boy Scouts, Father 
Redmond's parish, etc., while several score of firms and organizations, 
such as Otis & Co., Nela Park, American Steel & Wire Co., Globe Ma- 
chine & Stamping Works, National Carbon Co., Cleveland Cadillac Co., 
The J. M. & L. A. Osborne Co., etc., cultivated large tracts on the com- 
munity plan in which there were from 10 to 300 individual gardens, some 
of the larger organizations cultivating from 50 to 200 acres each. Thou- 
sands of food gardens have been cultivated all over the city by people 
who had no occasion to communicate with our Committee. 

The results of the War Garden Movement were indeed marked. 
First of all, failures represented a relatively low percent. This can be 
attributed to two causes: over 300 plots were entirely rejected because the 
soil was not suitable for gardening. Close supervision resulted in more 
timely and thorough cultivation and in the application of the proper insec- 
ticides and fungicides. Again: there was a large increase in the number 
of gardens and in the size of many of the gardens. Conservative esti- 
mates would show an increase of 100 percent in the total area under 
cultivation this year, as compared with previous years. Likewise, the 
quality of the gardens was a remarkable feature. Old gardens were better 
than ever and new gardens frequently looked as though they were being 
worked by skilled agriculturists. Finally, a soil and crop survey of 
Greater Cleveland has paved the way for more intelligent direction of 
garden work during the coming year. A map of the city, dividing the 
city into 34 districts, has been prepared, a copy of same being attached to 
this report. As this map may be in demand for advertising purposes, by 
individuals or firms, our Committee has deemed it advisable to have same 
copyrighted in the name of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee. 

Photos of sixteen War Gardens located in different sections of Cleve- 
land and showing food gardens of various sizes and conditions, are 
attached to this report. American Forestry, the official publication of the 
National Emergency Food Garden Commission, reproduced part of these 
photos, with complimentary mention, in its September issue. We also beg 
to quote letter from Mr. P. S. Ridsdale, Secretary of the National Emer- 
gency Food Garden Commission, same being dated at Washington, D. C, 
July 24, 1917: 

"Your work has been so carefully planned and so efficiently con- 
ducted that I am not surprised at the unusual success you have scored, 
and I wish in the name of the Commission to compliment you upon it. 

"We should like to use some of the material in your letter for 
publicity purposes, so that it may serve as an example to other cities 
and show them what can be done by the right kind of efficient organi- 
zation. I presume that you will have no objection to this." 

The experiences and results of 1917 suggested the following recom- 
mendations : 

That a similar organization should be perfected much earlier in the 
year for the garden season of 1918. 

That vacant lot donations should be received, listed and published in 
the daily papers. 

That all lots donated should be carefully inspected. 

That gardeners should be permitted to choose vacant lots from the 
lists published in the daily papers. 

That the list of persons to whom bulletins are sent be extended and 
that lectures on food gardening be given at schools and community centers 
during the winter months. 

That the efforts of gardeners should be confined to the cultivation of 
good land. 

That provisions should be made by which fertilizer can be secured for 
the gardens. 



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That all co-operative and community movements be assisted and en- 
couraged where ever possible. 

That competent inspectors be secured for the entire garden season. 

SUMMARY 
Expense Budget authorized by Executive Committee $10,000.00 

WAR GARDEN EXPENDITURES 

Salaries $2,970.83 

Draying 19.50 

Plowing 616.85 

Printing 36,25 

Supplies 31.05 

Miscellaneous 133.45 

Total Expenses $ 3,807.93 

Balance Unexpended $ 6,192.07 

WAR GARDEN FACTS 

Bulletins Published 4 

Total number copies of bulletins published 20,000 

Co-operative organizations receiving part time and inspection... 9 

Gardens receiving mention of unusual merit 38 

Number of visits to War Gardens 3,174 

Number of Home Gardens listed 4,843 

Special visits made at request of gardeners 76 

Number of War Garden signs displayed 854 

Acreage protected by War Garden signs 225 acres 

Estimated acreage in small gardens 1,500 

Acreage in community gardens 1,690 

Total acreage 3,190 

Value of crop at low value of $100 per acre $319,000 

Respectfully submitted, 

WAR GARDEN COMMITTEE, 
October 12th, 1917. Geo. A. Schneider, 

Chairman. 

THE CHAIRMAN: We have had an opportunity to see exactly the 
results accomplished by this Committee, because of the close of the season. 
That is not true of very many of the committees ; we can't know exactly 
what has been accomplished — the results are not visible — but in this 
instance they are, and I think that you will all agree — this Committee had 
$10,000 assigned to it, and has turned back $6,200 — that this Committee has 
pretty nearly justified, if not entirely, the whole appropriation. We have 
looked it over pretty carefully, your Committee has, and I think we 
believe that there was produced here by its activities food that would not 
have been produced to pretty nearly the amount that Mr. Schneider 
reports. It is a very wonderful showing, and one of the principal reasons 
of that showing is the fact that at the head of that Committee there was 
a human dynamo as chairman, Mr. Schneider. And I ask you to especi- 
ally commend Mr. Schneider — 

MR. SCHNEIDER : I had the best little Committee in Cleveland. 

THE CHAIRMAN : Yes, but it takes the best little man to get the 
best little Committee and handle it right. And you will be glad to know 
that at our Executive Committee meeting todav we have arranged with 
Mr. Schneider for another year, and are making preparations to get 
ready for it during the winter. I want to vote on the question of the 
special commendation of this Committee, and especially Mr. Schneider. 
AH in favor of that motion say aye. 

The motion was carried unanimously. 



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THE CHAIRMAN: We will now hear the report of the Committee 
on Patriotism — Mr. Harry L. Vail. 

MR. VAIL : Mr. Chairman, and members of the Committee, in your 
letter, Mr. Chairman, you spoke about reviewing just for a moment the 
past and also presenting any plans that we had for the future. 

The Committee, immediately upon its organization, enlisted a corps of 
speakers, and during the past six months has engaged in the following 
campaigns : First Liberty Loan, Volunteer Enlistments, Red Cross, Con- 
servation of Food Supply, How War Came to America, The Nation in 
Arms, Onward to Victory, and the Second Liberty Loan. 

Your Committee was requested by the Committee on Public Inforrna- 
tion at Washington to co-operate in what is now known as the Four Min- 
ute Men's organization. This was done, and I can simply say that the 
demands from Washington were so urgent and important that nearly all 
the work of your Committee has been devoted to this particular movement. 
A call was made from Washington to form a Four Minute Men's organi- 
zation in every county in the State. The Chairman of your Committee on 
Patriotism was appointed State Chairman. To date, we have organized 
seventy counties in the State. Each county has its chairman and corps of 
Four Minute Men, comprising the best speakers in the State, and reports 
that are daily received show a strong organization and an earnest desire 
to help the Government in every way possible. There are fifteen hundred 
men and women now enrolled as Four Minute speakers. The Committee 
at Washington are more than pleased with the work accomplished not only 
here, but throughout the State. 

Prior to the present Liberty Loan campaign, word was sent to all the 
State Chairmen, calling upon them to co-operate in every way possible 
with the Liberty Loan Committee of the Federal Reserve district. In every 
instance, the Four Minute Men's organization have worked in complete 
harmony with the Committee. Whatever results have been obtained, I 
cannot but feel that your Executive Committee should receive the largest 
share of credit, not only in Cleveland but throughout the State, as without 
your sympathy and support, perhaps very little would have been accom- 
plished. 

In that connection I wish to state that the total expense that our 
Committee has been to has been the salary of the Secretary, at the present 
time in the amount of $300. I tried to get the Committee at Washington 
to share even some of that expense, but they are not in a situation to offer 
any financial assistance to our Committee or to the State Committee. 

I took up with the authorities at Washington the question of obtain- 
ing a franking privilege. This has been granted, and the Chairman of 
the Committee on Patriotism is now an officer of the Federal Government, 
entitled to all the respect and dignity to which that position entitles him. 
The salary, however, does not seem to be quite commensurate with the 
dignity of his position; it is only $1.00 a month. 

Meetings are held on an average of about once or twice a week of 
all the Four Minute speakers. The subjects that are discussed are mainly 
"How to Make Our Work the Most Efficient." A call was sent out on 
October 15th for a meeting of all the Four Minute Men of the United 
States in the different counties of the State, At that meeting the follow- 
ing telegram was received from Secretary McAdoo : 
"Mr. Harry L. Vail, 

"City Hall, Cleveland, O. 

"The Four Minute Men are a mighty and potential influence in 
the success of the Liberty Loan. They did an immensely valuable 
and patriotic service in the first Liberty Loan, and I count with genu- 
ine satisfaction upon their enthusiastic support and service in placing 
the second Liberty Loan. God speed every Four Minute Man in this 
noble work. 

"W. G. McADOO." 

Prior to the present campaign, your Chairman met with Mr. Allard 
Smith, Chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee, and tendered to him the 
services of our entire organization. We have co-operated with him in 



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every way possible. From the first of October, when the Liberty Loan 
started, we have had the services of 125 speakers. They have spoken 600 
times at 94 different theatres, and we have furnished the Liberty Loan 
Committee, at their request 43 of our speakers, who have spoken at noon 
at the different industrial and manufacturing plants. Up to date, it is 
assumed that we have spoken to 290,000 people. We have 15 women 
speakers who are doing excellent work, and I take this occasion to com- 
pliment them for the unselfish manner in which they have devoted them- 
selves to carrying the message of the Liberty Loan throughout the city. 

Your Chairman took up with the Screen Club, which is an organization 
of the Moving Picture managers, the question of how to most effectively 
reach their audiences with the Liberty Loan. They made some valuable 
suggestions, and offered their unqualified support to any movement that 
could be of assistance to the Government at the present time. 

In your letter addressed to me, you asked what plans this Committee 
has for the future. I simply say that we have no plans. We are simply 
awaiting orders, every man connected with the Committee and its organi- 
zation willing and anxious to be of service. 

I would state, in that connection, that the Committee receives instruc- 
tions from Washington. They start their different drives on different 
subjects. They are going to take up, immediately after the Liberty Loan, 
a Food Conservation campaign. This is going to last for one week, com- 
mencing October 28th, and ending November 4th, and we have tendered 
to Mr. North the services of our organization to assist him in every way 
possible in his work. 

THE CHAIRMAN : There was no mistake made in the selection of 
that Committee. I have heard from outside sources — other cities, I think 
you will be glad to know — the highest sort of commendation for the work 
of this Committee, and they have endeavored to find out — there was no 
difficulty in finding out — the method employed here, and have copied from 
the work done by this Committee, and I ask your hearty approval and 
commendation of Mr. Vail and his Committee. All in favor will say aye. 

The motion was carried unanimously. 

THE CHAIRMAN : In addition to your salary, Mr. Vail, you over- 
looked the fact that you have the privilege of paying your own expenses. 
We will now hear from the Women's Committee — Miss Belle Sherwin. 

MISS SHERWIN: Mr. Chairman, may I introduce my Secretary, 
Miss Wolf? I am obliged to take a suburban car. Miss Wolf is here 
for the report. I am sorry I must go. 

THE CHAIRMAN : I am sorry you have to go. Miss Sherwin. 

Miss Wolf then read the report of the Women's Committee, as fol- 
lows : 

The Committee appointed to take charge of women's activities in the Mayor's 
Advisory War Committee was organized in June, also as the Cleveland Women's Com- 
mittee of the Council of National Defense. Its program of work follows the lines laid 
down by the National Women's Committee, but adapted to the organizations of Cleve- 
land's existing activities. 

The object of this Committee is to act as a clearing house for the activities of 
women, in order to promote efficiency; to prevent the duplication of effort; to utilize 
all organizations already in existence; and to give ever^' woman an opportunity for 
patriotic service, either at home or abroad. The Cleveland Committee has thirteen 
well organized departments of work, each operating under a Chairman, and where these 
general departments have been sub-divided, each sub-committee has its Chairman. 

A carefully prepared outline of the question of food production, distribution and 
conservation, as well as the scientific handling of food to secure proper nourishment 
in the period of changing habits will become a part of the program of all women's 
organizations during the winter. 

Our Food Conservation Section, by teaching, publicity and co-operation with the 
Food Administrator, aims to secure the economical uses of all foods and create the 
widespread practice of using only those foods (and in such quantities) as will leave 
available the greatest possible supply for our allies, while affording adequate nourish- 
ment for the maintenance and strength of our own nation. Under the auspices of this 
Section of work, thirty Food Lectures and demonstrations have been given, and also 
a series of four Voiceless Exhibits on Food Values. During the first Food Pledge 
Campaign, undertaken in July, 18,000 signatures were secured for the Food Pledge 



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Cards. For the Food Pledge "drive," which is to be undertaken the week of October 
28th, a local canvassers' group has been organized, the Chairman having chosen twenty 
to twenty-five leaders, each of whom will have five captains under her, and each cap- 
tain to have a team of ten workers, making a canvassers' group of at least 1,000 
women. 

By increasing the number and developing the training of nurses in all city hospi- 
tals by securing 97 volunteer assistants, and by co-operation with the Division of 
Health, our Section on Nursing and Public Health is insuring skilled service for the 
wounded abroad and the sick at home, and is maintaining and building up the physical 
strength of the community. 

The Section on Women and Children in Industry, by keeping in touch with 
women and children's work, either on Government supplies or in the employments 
vacated by enlisted men, aims to maintain the present standard of work and to improve 
those standards so that working vitality may be sustained at its highest point. 

By co-operation with the Welfare Federation and by supplying trained volunteer 
service in visiting families and institutions, in clerical work and in leading clubs arid 
classes, our Section of Maintenance of Existing Social Agencies is seeking to maintain 
at least the present state of progress toward the well-being of the community. To 
supplement these activities, 72 students were enrolled October 1st for a six weeks' 
course for Social Service and Public Health courses. 

There is formulating a plan to introduce Neighborhood Service into certain school 
houses, in co-operation with the schools, and by means of the careful study of the con- 
ditions of individual family and neighborhood life, as affected by the war, to provide 
means for information and counsel, for continued education, for occupation and 
recreation, in order to prevent the waste caused by unrest throughout the city, and 
particularly among boys and young girls. 

There is constantly developing the necessity for providing training for women, 
and by collecting information on the possibilities for giving training, keeping in touch, 
with the field of work in order to understand the need for such training and develop- 
ing the means of training whenever necessary, our Section is enabling women to serve 
their country as effectively as possible. To date, three classes, each numbering from 
twelve to fifteen young women, have been enrolled in a business school for a three 
months' business course. 

Our Speakers' Section, during the past three weeks, has covered 47 moving 
picture theatres and daily meetings of Women's Organizations on the subjects of War 
Service in general, and Liberty Bonds in particular. Our chairman of the Women's 
Liberty Loan section announced at a meeting of the Executive Committee this morn- 
ing that they had reached 96 organizations during the past two weeks. 

All matters relating directly to Home and Foreign Relief are referred to the Red 
Cross and allied societies, all of which are represented by chairmen serving on our 
Executive Committee. 

The Committee has issued a general folder, outlining all its activities, and a folder 
on Training Opportunities for Women. 

The Cleveland Women's Committee, as now organized, has eight officers, meeting 
on call; an Executive Committee of twenty- four members, meeting twice a month, 
and a General Committee of seventy members meeting once a month. 

THE CHAIRMAN: I will say, in Miss Sherwin's absence, that she 
is a very remarkable woman, and doing a remarkable work, not only here 
but elsewhere. I ask for the same reference of commendation for this 
report. All in favor say aye. 

The motion was carried unanimously. 

THE CHAIRMAN: I am obliged to leave here in order to take a 
train, and I will ask Mr. Feiss to take the chair. But before doing so, 
I would like to say just a word. 

We are to have a later meeting of the Executive Committee, at which 
we will make a full report and show you what has been done. We have 
been meeting once a month, and have gone over a very considerable field, 
and we have seen a great many people, and a great many petitions have 
been presented to this Committee, and we want to bring you into closer 
touch with the work of the Executive Committee, and we hope hereafter 
to have a meeting once a week. 

It is rather a difficult thing to start an organization and make it effect- 
ive. This was begun without anybody understanding or appreciating what 
the needs or uses were for it, but it must be apparent to anybody connected 
with it that it has long since justified its existence; and now, as this war 
goes on, we are going to get closer together and get into a position where 
we will perform some very great service. 

I am sure that if Bishop Farrelly and Dr. Meldrum could have had 
in years past the same listening ear of their people that they have been 
speaking to along subjects such as we are taking up here as almost a dis- 
covery of things that need to be done, they would have been very much 



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accelerated. They would have felt that the world was really getting better 
rapidly, and one of the things that is coming out of this miserable war is 
the closer coming together of people, and their willingness to recognize 
that they have obligations to their fellow men, and it is going to be of 
lasting value to this country. 

It doesn't seem conceivable that we, as a great city, could have gone 
on in these years without collectively taking more interest in the things 
that were actually our concern. This little Committee, as I say, justified 
itself long ago, and what I want to see now is your deeper and keener 
interest, and a willingness not only to inquire into all that has been done 
and suggested, but to strengthen every committee, and bring this one into 
a position where it can do the still greater work that is coming to it. 

I am going to ask Mr. Feiss if he won't take the chair, if you will 
be so kind as to excuse me, as I am obliged to go to catch a train. 

Mr. Herrick retired, and Mr. Paul L. Feiss took the chair. 

MR. CHAIRMAN: Has Mr. Raddatz any report to make for the 
Committee on Publicity? 

MR. RADDATZ : Mr. Chairman, I haven't any report to supple- 
ment the report I made at the last meeting. The Publicity Committee has 
not been asked to do anything out of the ordinary since the last meeting. 
Mr. Anson has done most of the detail work. But I would like to impress 
upon the chairmen of the other committees that I recruited in my com- 
mittee what I considered the finest advertising brains in Cleveland, and if 
you have any publicity matter to be gotten out for your particular work. 
I will be most delighted to offer the services of our committee at any 
time. 

THE CHAIRMAN: Unfortunately, Mr. Burns, Secretary of the 
Sub-committee on Training Camp Recreation, and Mr. Harvey, Secretary 
of the Sub-committee on Endorsement, are both absent. Perhaps Mr. 
Kingsley will have something to say about the endorsement work. 

MR. KINGSLEY : I think, Mr. Chairman, the demand for endorse- 
ment work from the Committee has greatly diminished, so far as war 
appeals are concerned, in the last few weeks or months. The Committee 
is going to have a very considerable task in the matter of local affairs, 
not directly connected with the war, but I think it speaks for the under- 
standing that Cleveland has of that sort of thing that the work has sort 
of taken care of itself, in a sense, automatically, and there is, very much 
less difficulty than there was in the early days of the Committee. 

THE CHAIRMAN : I think that is very encouraging, because, after 
all, a Committee of Endorsement, if it has any influence, should tend to 
reduce appeals, and it has been the entire thought of our Committee, and, 
I think, of many other similar activities in the city, to concentrate our 
appeals, just as the Red Cross appeal included three others, and the Y. M. 
C. A. appeal next week carries with it the gathering of funds for the 
recreation work outside of the camps. So that the fact that the appeals 
have been reduced is evidence that the ephemeral demands and the unnec- 
essary appeals find that they have got a strict censorship beyond which 
they can not go successfully. 

Mr. Marshall, of the Sub-committee on Prevention of Waste, is not 
here, so we will now have the address by Mr. Warren S. Hayden, the new 
Secretary of the Executive Committee : 

MR. HAYDEN : Mr. Chairman, like every other member of this 
Committee, I received notice the other day that I would make an address 
at this meeting, so that I had precisely the information that you had. 

It seemed to lie in the mind of whoever sent that notice out, that 
Cleveland was apathetic to the Liberty Loan, that it was necessary, before 
next Saturday night, to have that situation corrected, and that, perhaps, 
if some one spoke to the members of this Committee who went out into 
the Community, they could help to bring about this correction. 

Having in mind this address, I telephoned to the Liberty Loan head- 
quarters today to find out just exactly how apathetic we were. These fig- 

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ures may interest you. Of course, the cities with which Cleveland is 
customarily compared in these things are Detroit, Pittsburgh and Cincin- 
nati, and you know, of course, that each community has a double quota 
in this campaign, that is, to each community is assigned its proportion of 
three billions, a minimum amount, and a second portion, which represents 
a proportion of five billions, which the Government hopes will be reached 
in the total by next Saturday night. The percentages of performance, 
however, are based upon the minimum expectation. 

Detroit's quota is $43,000,000; Detroit has subscribed $50,000,000 so 
that the Detroit performance is 115 per cent, so far. Cincmnati's quota is 
$21,000,000, and Cincinnati's performance today is almost exactly $21,- 
000,000, or 100 per cent. Pittsburgh's quota is $85,000,000, and Pitts- 
burgh's subscriptions to date total $65,000,000, a 76 per cent, performance. 
Cleveland's quota is $60,000,000, her performance $43,000,000, and her 
percentage therefore 71 per cent. 

In testing an investment security, there are three test questions which 
are generally put, and when each of those questions is satisfactorily 
answered, the investment is considered good. The first is as to the secur- 
ity of the principal. The second is as to the reasonableness of the income, 
and the third is as to the convertibility of the investment, or the opportun- 
ity which the owner of the security has to realize his money before the 
actual maturity date of the obligation, by selling it to somebody else at 
a satisfactory price. 

It is obvious to any one that United States bonds like those now 
offered meet fully each of these three tests. It is not puffing our wares to 
say that it is impossible that there should be a more secure piece of paper 
than United States Government Bonds. 

Certainly 4 per cent., tax free, or tax free to almost everybody, 
is a liberal rate of interest, especially when the quality of the security is 
considered. And we don't have to take any chances at all about our 
ability to realize our funds from the investment if we choose to, because 
the Government has made those bonds convertible into bonds subsequent- 
ly issued, if bearing a higher rate of interest, which comes just as near 
as any human device can come to maintaining the value of these bonds at 
par. So that those bonds are just as desirable an investment as it is 
humanly possible to make, so far as I can possibly see. 

And I am quite sure that those advantages are so obvious to the 
banking public, that there would be no difficulty at all in forming a bank- 
ing syndicate to take care of them, and the same might have been said of 
the earlier 35-4 per cents, of the summer. But there were two perfectly 
good reasons why the government did not permit any syndicate of banks 
to perform that service. 

The first of those reasons was that it would have been against the 
best public policy. It was exceedingly important, for social reasons, es- 
pecially important in time of war, that the greatest possible number of our 
people should have a sense of partnership and responsibility, and should 
participate in the financing of the war. 

And the second reason is that, because of the magnitude of the issue — 
and the same would be true of any issue as great or greater than $1,000,000 
— the bankers could not perform the service adequately. They could un- 
derwrite it, and the Government have the credit and spend the money, but 
the bankers hadn't developed any such degree of distributing power as 
was necessary to make a true sale of bonds. 

So the Government very wisely decided to make a popular loan in the 
case of the first Liberty Loan, and it has adhered to that policy, and will 
continue to do so, I have no doubt. 

Well, we might think that those of our people who have saved money, 
the thrifty ones of our population, as soon as the merits of the issue were 
pointed out to them, as soon as they were shown by these three simple 
and adequate tests that the bonds fitted their particular needs, would come 
right forward and buy those bonds. But the Government knew in advance 
that the bonds wouldn't sell themselves, and of course one of the obvious 
reasons for that is that people never come forward with avidity to get 
something which they can easily obtain. 



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I don't wish to betray one of the secrets of our trade when I say 
that when we wish to make an issue of bonds in ordinary times a success, 
we attempt so to set things that people will have a little difficulty in get- 
ting any of them. Of course, in an issue of this magnitude it is impos- 
sible to make it difficult for any one, and just as it seems easy to do, it 
seems not particularly desirable. Then, too, less than one per cent, of 
our people are investors. That is a very poor compliment to the thrift 
of Americans, but American thrift has not been entitled in the past to 
any compliments at all. 

I have heard it said at the time of the outbreak of the war there were 
not 300,000 experienced bond buyers in American. That little handful of 
people would have been the only ones prepared to see the investment 
merits of this offer, and to come forward with their money, and of course 
they were entirely incapable of making a true absorption of that loan. 

Seeing then that it was necessary to do something besides emphasize 
the purely investment merits of Liberty Bonds, the Government very 
wisely saw to it that the appeal was to the patriotism of the people. To be 
sure it is the best thing for you to do; you may not see that clearly, but 
you can see that it is the patriotic thing to do, to do it for the country's 
sake, and that is where the emphasis was in the first Liberty Loan of last 
May and June. 

That campaign was a true success. And another thing true about that 
campaign, which will not be true of this or any future campaign, was that 
the people could spend that money without pain. The percentage of in- 
convenience to people in making: and meeting their subscriptions in the 
case of the first loan, was so trifling as to be wholly negligible, and of 
course we must expect that on successive occasions the inconvenience will 
increase. The people don't quite sense that. 

Well, we came to the second campaign with our organizations better 
organized. Our canvassing power was increased. But the appeal was 
exactly the same as in the first campaign. But the second campaign hadn't 
gone very far before it was evident that the country was cold, and that 
it was going to be hard to warm it up, and of course those who couldn't 
brook the idea of any lack of success in the campaign, had to set their 
brains to work to see what was the matter. Well, all sorts of things were 
the matter. Every group of people had its own particular difficulty, but 
there was a common denominator for all their difficulties, and that was, 
"Let George do it." They knew that Liberty Bonds had to be sold to win 
the war, but they felt that somehow it would be done and they didn't have 
to do it. Well, it is easy to say that, but it doesn't accomplish anything. 

Let me tell you what I think it means when we talk about a success- 
ful loan, because I think that people get lost in fog about this thing. 
People feel that the loan will succeed even if they do not subscribe. There 
is a sense in which this is true, in that the total of subscriptions will be 
greater than the amount of bonds offered, but what I want to emphasize 
now is the difference between a situation like that and a really successful 
flotation, because merely to have the subscriptions total up is not to make a 
success of the loan. 

It would be possible to have a set of bankers subscribe this whole 
issue, without any public offering whatever, and then by merely giving 
the Government credit on their ledgers for the purchase money and hon- 
oring the Government's checks, and then by taking the Liberty Bonds and 
hypothecating them somewhere else, to keep up piling up debt and saying 
each time that the loan had been subscribed and we are financing the war, 
and Tom, Dick and Harry to whom we are appealing today would know 
nothing about it but by reading the newspapers. But that is not selling 
the bonds. 

There is just one thing that will buy those bonds, and that is true 
wealth, true wealth in the technical, economic sense, and that true wealth 
is in the possession, for the most part, of those who produce that wealth ; 
disregarding some little inequalities in distribution, that wealth belongs 
to those who produce it, and the wealth produced in years gone by does 

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not do us any good, because it is not in the form to be used. The sum 
total of profits and savings and the interest increment, and so on, which 
will come to our people in the coming months, ought to buy the loan 
brought out at this time, otherwise we have mere inflation. 

Now, of course we can't secure those ideals. What happens is be- 
tween the two. We are not going to be at either extreme, and of course 
the thing to do is to come just as near as we can to making our current 
savings finance the war, and that is where we measure our degree of 
success. 

Well, we say, who cares? We all care, because the symptom of in- 
flation, the aspect of inflation which is obvious to us all, is the rapid rise 
of prices, and, heaven knows, prices rise fast enough without any stimu- 
lation by bad Government finance or by a failure on the part of our 
people to participate. 

But suppose we did inflate things, if we got away with it we would win 
the war, wouldn't we? But I want to point out that the serious disar- 
rangements which proceed from bad finance are the things which rot out 
the situation at home and destroy the power of the people. And it would 
happen so quickly, if there came that serious maladjustment between prices 
and the means of buying, that it is extremely important. That, as it seems 
to me, is the way the thing comes about, and we, I am sure, can see how 
serious a thing it would be if we failed to have something like a truly 
successful floating of these loans as they successively come along. You 
may say that people will say we are crying "Wolf" if we say if we don't 
float these loans we will not win the war, but that is absolutely true. 

What message then must we take to the people who are the money 
savers and therefore the bond buyers, in order to make them come in and 
subscribe for Liberty Bonds? Well, if they haven't been willing to sub- 
scribe on the general appeal to their patriotism, we must get them in their 
individual lives, and make them see that there is a real personal danger to 
them in failing to do it. That, I think, is a rather difficult thing for most 
of us to do. It seemed to me that Mr. Baker was doing that when he 
was talking in the Hippodrome the other day, and I have heard several 
other people do the same thing, but most of us haven't those powers. 

Most of us have heard the word "liberty" all our lives, and have had 
a lot of it, have known it in a sort of way, and have rather taken it for 
granted that it was a heritage of ours and a matter of birthright, and 
some of us have not realized that for the last two years we have kept on 
enjoying our liberty because somebody else was paying the traditional 
price, and we realize in a still less degree today that our ease, one of the 
incidents of our liberty, is slipping away, in fact, has gone for most of us 
and will not come back unless we pay that same old price. 

Of course that will be clearer to us as time goes on and our sacrifices 
are more and more based on it. What I have been hoping for — what you 
have been hoping for — is that we should have enough imagination to see 
the situation as it will be shortly if we do not sense these things now, so 
that we can anticipate that and prevent the happening of many of these 
grievous things. If it will all work out — it will all work out — but what a 
happy thing it would be if it could all be worked out upon the payment 
upon our part of only part of the consideration. It is the conservation of 
the lives of our people. 

Well, what can we all do about it? I suppose that in a country 
like ours, which has free institutions, every citizen is responsible for 
the government in some sense and in some degree, but as a practical 
matter we know there is a comparatively limited number of citizens 
who have the patience and the power to understand things and the 
means of influencing others, and that these have the greater responsi- 
bility, and I am talking to that kind of people here. Of course, this 
war committee was selected from the citizens of Cleveland with the 
idea of bringing together a group of people who have more than 
the average influence upon other citizens. It would be folly for me to 

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undertake to say to each of you or any of you just what he can do 
about this. 

Any one of us who knows very much about Cleveland can look 
over that list of men and relate every name there to some activity in 
Cleveland or some group in Cleveland in respect to which each one 
of us is effective. And that is exactly the work, each one of us should 
exert all the power he has between now and next Saturday night, not 
only to make those figures more favorable to Cleveland, but to make 
them as favorable as possible, and to impress everywhere this idea 
of individual obligation, because the thing we do have to overcome is 
that disposition to leave it to somebody else and take it for granted 
that it will be done. 

I am not going to appeal very much to our civic pride. Cleveland 
wins a good many pennants, and she may win this one; I hope she 
will. But this goes a great deal deeper. I am far more interested in 
what the United States does about this thing than I am about what 
Cleveland does in it. Cleveland counts only because Cleveland is the 
place where we have a chance to do something today, so let us all do 
what we can here in Cleveland. 

THE CHAIRMAN: It was a very fortunate day, I think, when 
Mr. Hayden was appointed to this Board. I doubt if there is any- 
one in the city who could have given us a clearer and more intelligent 
analysis of the economics and psychology of the Liberty Loan situ- 
ation in Cleveland and the country today. I am sure we are all 
extremely grateful to Mr. Hayden for his most interesting and stimu- 
lating talk. 

Before closing I think you will be interested to have a little 
summary of the financial situation of the Board, because the expendi- 
tures indicate to some extent the character of our activities. The 
Executive Secretary will give us that. 

MR. ANSON: We have spent to date $68,273.29. We started out 
back in April with $20,000 borrowed on notes. Then we got $50,000 
from the Red Cross. We have an application pending for an addi- 
tional $35,000 from the Red Cross now, inasmuch as our balance is 
not much more than $8,000. It is $8,000 largely because of the fact 
that we have had receipts approximating $7,500 from the County Food 
Commissioner, representing receipts from the proceeds of sales of 
seed potatoes and seed buckwheat which we bought. The $68,000 
expended is classified in this way: For executive salaries, $1,780.85; 
war garden, $3,087.23; general office, that is, the general office over- 
head. $4,702.95; publicity, $1,771.82; County Food Commissioner, $20,- 
187.47; Military Committee, $5,591.72; Women's Committee, $1,235.37; 
Americanization Committee, $4,225.65. The County Draft Board has 
been given a total of $3,575.21 to date, out of an appropriation of 
$5,000. We are paying to the employes of the County Draft Board 
the difference between the Government allowance of $2.50 a day and 
a fair living wage in civil life. They appealed to us when they found 
that they couldn't get the sort of executive help they wanted at the 
Government rate. We have paid out to the American Protective 
League $855.62. We appropriated in August the sum of $500 a month 
until January to carry the office overhead of the American Protective 
League, which is a volunteer organization of business men who assist 
the_ Secret Service Department in running down cases of slackers, 
sedition, treason, etc. They haven't been spending much money. The 
$2,500 total appropriation will carry them at this rate until next 
summer. 

That is a summary of the financial situation. The only other 
expenditure of our funds that doesn't appear in this statement is 
that of underwriting the salaries of two or three young women who 
are employed in the Provost Marshal General's office here; the Gov- 
ernment is slow in paying their salary checks and we have appro- 
priated to a total of $400 for that purpose, all of which we will get back. 
We also appropriated $600 for two boys' camps under the direction 

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of Mr. Disbro. The experiment of sending boys to the farm was a 
success, at least to the point of keeping within the appropriation; we 
spent no more than $400. I don't mean to imply in that connection 
that it was not a success from the other standpoint; I don't know. 
I think that states the whole proposition. 

THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Mr. Anson. I think you will 
gather somewhat from that statement that there are many activities 
which we are interested in, with which we come in contact, which 
are not in the hands of the permanent committees, and so it is obvious 
that many things of ephemeral need or expedient requirement come 
to us that require the expenditure of money or of time and counsel 
and effort. 

We are now concerning ourselves with a number of things that 
are related to the care of the Cleveland boys at Chillicothe or Mont- 
gomery, or wherever they happen to be. We have under considera- 
tion, for example, the establishment of a Cleveland clubhouse at Mont- 
gomery, where the Cleveland men. about five thousand in number, 
can find recreation and a place to write their letters outside of the 
cantonments, and where they can also meet the men from their home 
town. This may seem to some extent a duplication of Y. M. C. A. 
and Knights of Columbus work, but it is a little more personal and 
intimate than is possible under the conditions under which the larger 
organizations are necessarily working. 

There have also been many suggestions for work, for example, 
like the establishment of a hostess house at Chillicothe for visiting 
Cleveland mothers or sisters or wives. That is under consideration. 
We are assisting Mr. North, who is the County Food Administrator 
appointed by Mr. Hoover. Mr. North has been made chairman of 
our newly created Committee on Food Administration. We have 
there again followed the course determined upon at our original 
meetings, to use existing organizations rather than duplicate by the 
appointment of special committees for purposes that could be worked 
out through established groups. Mr. North has had an appropriation 
of $15,000 to cover the publicity of the Conservation Week, which 
is to follow the Liberty Bond week. 

As Mr. Herrick has said, we hope to report to you more fully 
as to the action of the Executive Committee, and perhaps will be 
able also, at the next meeting, to include in that report not only the 
list of items we have had money expended for, but that which money 
has been appropriated for. in other words, that we may know what 
our budget would call for for a reasonable period in advance. 

If there is anything else that any individual member wishes to 
bring up, I presume this would be the time to do it. If not, the 
meeting will stand adjourned. 

SAM B. ANSON, 

Executive Secretary. 



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Meeting of the Executive Committee 
October 31, 1917 

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Mayor's Advisory War 
Committee was held October 31st, at 2 :30 P. M., in the Mayor's office. 

Present: Messrs. Feiss and Hayden. Mr. Hayden presided as Chair- 
man. 

Capt. H. P. Shupe, chairman of the Sub-Committee on MiHtary 
Affairs, reported verbally on his recent trip to the Fourth Ohio Regi- 
ment, which is now a part of the 166th Rainbow Division stationed at 
Mineola, L. I. He recommended that this Committee appropriate the sum 
of $500 toward the regimental fund of the Fourth Ohio, which already 
has been the beneficiary of donations of various amounts from Columbus, 
Mansfield, New London and other Ohio cities, represented with men in 
its ranks. He argued that Cleveland has a similar duty inasmuch as 155 
men, transferred from the Fifth Regiment to the Fourth when the War 
Department desired to raise the latter regiment to war strength, are 
Clevelanders. It was decided on motion of Mr. Feiss to appropriate 
$500 for this purpose to Capt. Shupe, as chairman of his Sub-Committee 
he to take care of the detail of transmitting this money to Col. Hough of 
the Fourth Regiment, who is the custodian of the fund. 

On motion of Mr. Feiss, the Executive Secretary was directed to 
amend the minutes of the meeting of October 15, 1917, so as to add to 
this paragraph of those minutes : 

"Communications were read from Myron J. Antel, Sergeant, 
Company F, 166th Infantry, and Ernest H. Rowe, Representative of 
the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities, both 
of whom are stationed at Camp Mills, Garden City, Long Island. 
These communications requested appropriations from this city for 
replenishing the company funds of the 166th Infantry, which formerly 
was known as the Fourth Ohio, to which was recently added about 
125 members of the Fifth Ohio from Cleveland. These communica- 
tions were referred to Capt. Shupe, Chairman of the Sub-Com- 
mittee on Military Affairs, who was instructed to go to^ Camp Mills 
at the Committee's expense and investigate the applications and file 
a report at the earliest succeeding meeting." 

these words : 

"Capt. Shupe was also authorized to make similar trips of iri- 
vestigation, at the Committee's expense, to Camp Sherman, Chilli- 
cothe, and Camp Sheridan, Montgomery, and to make similar reports 
in due course." 

Harold T. Clark, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on Americaniza- 
tion, appeared before the Committee in behalf of the pending proposition 
to conduct evening classes in English in various parochial schools under 
the direction of the Board of Education and at the expense of the Mayor's 
Advisory War Committee. 

In this connection, Mr. Clark read the following letter from Supt. of 
Schools, F. E. Spaulding: 

In confirmation of the statements which I made in our recent 
conference concerning the establishment and maintenance of schools 
in our Department of Educational Extension, I beg to submit the 
following: _ . . i 

We are maintaining these schools not only in the public school 
buildings but in factories in which suitable rooms and facilities are 
provided. Whether in school or factory, the whole responsibility for 
the appointment of teachers and the supervision of their work is 
assumed by the Department of Educational Extension. The schools 
in factories are under the full control of our department, just as 
are the schools in public school buildings. 

The maintenance of schools already opened and about to be 
opened in response to immediate demands will exhaust the funds. 
One Hundred Thousand Dollars, appropriated by the Board of 
Education. Any proposition to materially extend the work already 
under way, should be made in accordance with the above principles 
of control and supervision by the Department of Educational Exten- 
sion and should be accompanied with the offer of funds sufficient to 
meet the expenses of such proposed extension of the work. 

P. S. The expense is at the rate of approximately $200 per 
class for a term of twenty-four weeks. 

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Because of the limited attendance at the meeting it was decided to 
defer decision on this question until the following meeting. . 

The Executive Secretary reported the result of his trip to Chillicothe 
made in investigation of the merits of the application of the D. A. R. 
for a loan of $6,000 toward the building of a "hostess house" or dormitory 
at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe. He reported that in conference with 
Major Gen. Glenn, Commandant at Camp Sherman, he found that it is 
the intention of the military authorities to build not one but several such 
dormitories around a central building to be erected by the Red Cross on 
a plot of land outside and adjoining the government reservation at Camp 
Sherman, which is to be known as the Camp Sherman annex. He out- 
lined Gen. Glenn's plan for keeping the administration and regulation of 
not only the D. A. R. dormitory but all other dormitories in this group 
under the control of the military authorities, and recommended that the 
application for such a loan to the D. A. R. be granted. 

He further reported the probability of the Mayor's Advisory War 
Committee being asked formally by Major Gen. Glenn to appropriate 
$15,000 for the construction of another dormitory, to be known as a 
Cleveland dormitory and intended especially for the benefit of Cleveland 
women relatives of officers and men at Camp Sherman. Gen. Glenn's 
plans call for making similar requests of the cities of Columbus, Cincinnati, 
Dayton and Toledo for additional dormitories. 

Because of the limited attendance at the meeting, definite action on 
the D. A. R.'s request was deferred. 

The Executive Secretary reported Professors Cutler and Moley of 
Western Reserve University had signified their willingness to serve on the 
Sub-Committee on Americanization, per the invitations recently extended 
to them. 

The Executive Secretary related the temporary financial difficulty 
that existed earlier in the week in connection with the sending of the 
Cleveland baseball team to Montgomery to play a five-day series of exhi- 
bition games for the benefit of the soldiers at Camp Sheridan, and 
reported that Mr. James Dunn, President of the Cleveland baseball club, 
had guaranteed, in the event of the failure of Montgomery representatives 
of the War Department Commission on Training Camp Activities to raise 
the money to defray the expenses of taking the team to Montgomery, he 
would personally pay these expenses. He read in this connection the fol- 
lowing telegram from Mr. Otis who was present at a "Cleveland Day" 
celebration at Camp Sheridan on Monday, October 28th, and to whom he 
had referred the situation by wire : 

"Cannot get back until Thursday morning. Think Mr. Dunn will 
bear all or great part of baseball expense. Think this should be free 
to troops after their great subscription to Liberty Loan. Everything 
being done in highest and best way here. Splendid Chamber Com- 
merce meeting tonight." 

The Executive Committee went on record as approving and endorsing 
the Knights of Columbus' plans to raise $50,000 in Cleveland for carrying 
on recreational work, in conjunction with the Y. M. C. A. at Camp Sher- 
man, Camp Sheridan and other training camps, following the reading of 
the following communication from Mr. Mooney: 

"Called out of town and cannot be at Wednesday's meftting. 
We ask War Board's endorsement of local Knights of Columbus cam- 
paign for War Camp funds to cover work being done in co-opera- 
tion with Y. M. C. A. at Chillicothe and elsewhere. I have already 
outlined our plan to Mr. Adams and Mr. Feiss who understand it. 
Mr. Lewis of Y. M. C. A. has expressed his approval to me. If 
possible we desire Board's approval at this meeting. Hope to hear 
of favorable action on my return Thursday." 

The Executive Secretary was instructed to notify Mr. Ad^ooney for- 
mally of the Committee's endorsement. 



The meeting adjourned at 4:15 p. m. 



SAM B. ANSON, 

Executive Secretary. 



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REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE TO DATE 
(Read at Executive Committee Meeting, October 31, 1917) 



Previous Distributions : 

(1) Executive Committee $ 1,785.85 

War Garden Committee 3,891.30 

General Office 4,753.99 

Publicity Committee 1,771.82 

County Food Commissioner 20,187.47 

Military Committee 5,732.07 

Women's Committee 1,235.37 

Americanization 4,225.95 

County Draft Board 3,575!21 

A. P. L 855.62 

Food Conservation Committee 

Bills Payable 20,258.64 



(2) 
(3) 
(4) 
(5) 
(6) 
(7) 
(8) 
(9) 
(10) 
(11) 



,273.29 



Distribution of October 24th and October 31st, 1917 

Voucher No. In favor of Account Charged Amount 



178 Sam B. Anson . ( 1 ) 
177 C. F. Krirk ( 2 ) 
176 J. C. Marks ( 3 ) 

182 Hazel Blattner ( 3 ) 

185 A. H. Hood ( 3 ) 

186 Raymond Porter ( 3 ) 

187 Margaret Wood ( 3 ) 

188 Laura Rankin ( 3 ) 

190 Effie B. Whiting ( 3 ) 

179 Anna Connors ( 7 ) 

183 Gertrude A. Wolfe ( 7 ) 

180 Lawrence C. Cole ( 8 ) 

181 Raymond E. Cole ( 8 ) 

184 Helen Bacon ( 8 ) 

188 Laura Rankin ( 8 ) 

189 Joe Trinastic ( 8 ) 

191 Babara Hornyak ( 8 ) 

169 Ruth Fryman (10) 

170 Grace G. Murphy (10) 

171 Estelle Novak (10) 

172 C. A. Cowgill (10) 

173 Ella B. Hiatt (10) 
168 Food Conservation Com. (11) 

174 M. V. Wellman (11) 

175 E. A. Smiley (11) 



$182.50 

75.00 

100.00 

42.50 

62.50 

37.50 

25.00 

21.25 

21.06 

42.50 

62.50 

75.00 

125.00 

75.00 

21.25 

40.00 

37.50 

14.17 

37.50 

30.00 

195.00 

40.00 

200.00 

112.50 

100.00 



$ 1,775.23 

Total Distributions to Date (not including Petty 

Cash or Postage) $70,048.52 

Audited October 30, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commissioner of 

Accounts 
Petty Cash, April 14 to Oct. 1, 



1917 

Americanization $10.28 

General Office 66.52 

Military 8.33 

Patriotism 43.49 

Publicity 56.65 

War Garden 92.24 

Women's 62.10 



Postage, Aug. 1 to Oct IS, 
1917 

Executive Committee $ 7.90 

Americanization 152.61 

General Office 29.78 

Patriotism 39.20 

Publicity 18.59 

War Garden 151.12 

Women's 36.22 



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ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES FROM OCTOBER 1 TO OCTOBER 
31, INCLUSIVE 

American Protective League. 

Date In Favor of — Service Voticher No. Amount 

10/10 L. C. Smith Co., typewriter rental 61 $ 3.00 

F. W. Roberts Co., supplies 62 .25 

Cleveland Desk Co., rental 81 5.00 

American Printing Co., supplies 85 2.75 

Ives Co., multigraphing 98 33.20 

Brooks Co., supplies 109 72.70 

Burrows Bros., supplies 110 8.80 

10/15 G. Murphy, salary 138 37.50 

R. Williams, salary 139 37.50 

E. B. Hyatt, salary 140 40.00 

R. Fryman, salary 141 42.50 

10/31 Ruth Fryman, salary 169 14.17 

Grace G. Murphy, salary 170 37.50 

Estelle Novak, salary 171 30.00 

C. A, Cowgill, salary 172 195.00 

Ella B. Hiatt, salary 173 40.00 

$ 599.87 

Previous Expenditures 572.42 

Total Expenditures to October 31. 1,172.29 

Appropriated to Date 2,500.00 

Balance in Committee Fund $ 1,327.71 

Americanisation Committee. 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

10 /lO H. Korman, papers 76 $ .75 

Davis-Hunt-Collister Co., hardware 53 1.80 

Western Union Tel. Co., telegrams 57 2.14 

Martin-Barris Co., lumber 69 9.75 

Gray Lumber Co., lumber 73 7.08 

Simon Sign Co., signs 77 4. SO 

Artcraft Co., printing 84 69.75 

B. & W. Taxi, taxicab 86 5.00 

Kingsley Paper Co., envelopes 89 13.44 

Ohio State Tel. Co., L. D. calls 90 .20 

The Romanul, subscription 91 .56 

Union Paper & Twine Co., supplies 92 6.20 

Remington Typewriter Co., rental 97 2.00 

Burrows Bros. Co., supplies 110 .05 

Y. & E. Mfg. Co., supplies Ill .95 

L. M. Riebel, multigraph 113 15.00 

Eclipse Electro Co., electros 114 3.50 

Hubbell Printing Co., printing 115 7.50 

Cleveland Telephone Co., L. D. calls 117 1.70 

10/15 Lawrence Cole, salary 125 75.00 

R. E. Cole, salary 126 125.00 

Helen Bacon, salary 127 75.00 

Sarah Glass, salary 130 37.50 

J. Trinastic, salary 136 40.00 

B. Hornyak, salary 137 37.50 

10/18 Y. & E. Mfg. Co., supplies 159 .30 

10 /31 L. C. Cole, salary 180 75.00 

R. E. Cole, salary 181 125.00 

Helen Bacon, salary 184 75.00 

Laura Rankin, salary 188 21.25 

Joe Trinastic, salary 189 40.00 

Barbara Hornyak, salary 191 37.50 

$ 915.92 

Previous Expenditures 3,683.78 

Total Expenditures to October 31 $ 4,599.70 

Appropriated to Date 16,950.00 

Balance in Committee Fund $ 12,350.30 

Boys' Camps. 

Date In Favor of — ■ Service Voucher No. Amount 
10/10 A. A. Beebe & Son, supplies 83 $14.73 

$ 14.73 

Previous Expenditures 212.34 

Total Expenditures to October 31 $ 227.07 

Appropriated to Date 600.00 

Balance in Committee Fund $ 372.93 

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County Draft Board. 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

10/10 A. J. Hirstius, lunches 55 $94.67 

10/15 C. Dempster, salary 142 20.00 

N. F. Orkin, salary 143 6.00 

W. H. Keeling, salary 144 60.00 

C. H. Palmer, salary 145 50.00 

W. C. Clarke, salary 146 30.00 

A. M. Scotland, salary 147 20.00 

F. Seacrist, salary 148 12.00 

Mrs. A. Jenkins, salary 149 6.00 

M. Taylor, salary 150 6.00 

C. E. Bologna, salary 151 6.00 

H. Wills, salary 152 20.00 

F. M. Patterson, salary 153 30.00 

C. J. Grant, salary 154 20.00 

O. Welf, salary 155 20.00 

E. M'^asiewlewski, salary 156 10.00 

M. Simons, salary 157 6.00 

C. J. Bartunek, salary 158 52.00 

10/31 (Transferred from Military Committee): 

Western Union Telegraph Co., telegrams 489 25.51 

$ 494.18 

Previous Expenditures 3,106.54 

Total Expenditures to October 31 $ 3,600.72 

Appropriated to Date 5,000.00 

Balance in Committee Fund $ 1,399.28 

County Food Commissioner. 

Date In Favor of — Service 



Voucher No. Amount 



10/10 Hall & Higgins, signs 72 $15.00 

Central Tire Shop, supplies 82 19.10 

$ 34.10 

Previous Expenditures 20,153.37 

Total Expenditures to October 31 $ 20,187.47 

Appropriated to October 31 25,000.00 

Balance in Committee Fund $ 4,812.53 

Executive Committee. 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

10/15 S. B. Anson, salary 123 $182.50 

10 /31 S. B. Anson, salary 178 182.50 

$ 365.00 

Previous Expenditures 1,603.35 

*Total Expenditures to October 31 $ 1,968.35 

Food Administration Committee. 



Date 



In Favor of- 



Service 



Voucher No. Amount 



10/24 Cuyahoga County Food Conservation Committee, 

miscellaneous expense to be accounted for. . . . 168 $200.00 

10/31 M. V. Wellman, salary 174 112.50 

E. A. Smiley, salary 175 100.00 

$ 412.50 

Total Expenditures to October 31 $ 412.50 

Appropriated to October 31 $ 15,000.00 

Balance in Committee Fund $ 14,587.50 



General Office. 

Date In Favor of- 



Service 



Voucher No. Amount 



10/10 H. Korman, papers 76 $ .20 

Forman-Bassett, T. W. papers 54 8.55 

Western Union, telegrams 57 3.68 

Underwood Typewriter Co., rental 58 3.00 

W. H. Collins, salary 63 6.50 

Mount & Co., printing 65 15 00 

Simon Sign Co., signs 77 3.00 

Roach-Reid Co., dictaphone 88 353.50 



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Remington Typewriter Co., rental 97 3.00 

Harris Printing Co., printing i06 28.18 

Hiles & Coggshall, printing 107 38.40 

Burrows Bros. Co., supplies 110 17.25 

Eclipse Electro Co., electros 114 1.7S 

Cleveland Telephone Co., L. D. calls 117 1.64 

10/15 M. Edelstein, papers liiO 7.68 

A. H. Hood, salary 128 87.50 

H. Blattner, salary 129 37.50 

H. Zeuge, salary 131 25.00 

H. Shaffer, salary 134 15.00 

R. Porter, salary 135 33.00 

10 /18 H. Shaffer, salary 160 7.50 

Gray Lumber Co., lumber 161 1.54 

10 /31 Hazel Blattner, salary 182 42.50 

A. H. Hood, salary 185 62.50 

Raymond Porter, salary 186 37.50 

Margaret A. Wood, salary 187 25.00 

Effa B. Whiting, salary 190 21.06 

Previous Expenditures 

*Total Expenditures to October 31 



$ 886.93 
3,014.38 

$ 3,901.31 



Military Committee. 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

10/10 Republic Electric Co., supplies 112 $ 53.11 

Ward & Shaw, tickets 56 6.00 

Telling-Belle Vernon, ice cream 60 82.01 

J. J. Metzger, banner 66 2.25 

Geo. J. Mesker, cartage 67 4.50 

Masten's Band, music 68 105.00 

J. A. McElhaney, music 70 7.00 

Kirk's Band, music 71 105.00 

Costello's Band, music 78 105.00 

Cleveland Laundry Co., blankets 80 54.95 

C. H. Prindle, music 93 3.00 

W. Woodruff, music 94 3.00 

Geo. Foster, music 95 3.00 

Geo. Akins, music 96 3.00 

F. T. Mudge, traveling expenses 100 12.75 

Alba Water Co., spring water 101 24.10 

E. Jeffrey, traveling expenses 102 11.35 

10/10 M. M. Protective Assn., music 103 105.00 

M. Mountcastle, traveling expenses 104 11.40 

Wagner Mfg. Co., flags 105 11.40 

L. L. Chandler, multigraphing 108 97.48 

10/lS Fred Irwin, labor 121 28.50 

Geo. J. Mesker, cartage 122 4.50 

10/18 S. A. Stedronsky, traveling expenses 162 7.45 

G- B. Scrambling, traveling expenses 164 14.00 

W. K. Patterson, traveling expenses 165 5.45 

W. E. Price, traveling expenses 166 8.45 

H. C. Avallane, band 167 105.00 

10/31 (Transferred to County Draft Board) 

Western Union Tel. Co., telegrams 489 25.51 

10 /31 (Transferred from Publicity Committee) , 

Troop A Academy, horses. 59 56.00 

10/31 (Transferred from Publicity Committee — God- 
speed Day) 

Carlton Music Co., band 393 125.00 

Harris Printing Co., cards, patriotic songs 430 14.50 

Kiltie Band, Godspeed Day 448 75.00 

F. Irwin, electric work 449 10.50 

R. Dieger, electric work 450 10.50 

G. A. Jackson, band 453 64.00 

E. A. Smiley, personal expense 

Miscellaneous expenses account Godspeed Day.. 51 32.50 

Union Sign Co., signs. Godspeed Day 451 2.50 

Previous Expenditures 

Total Expenditures to October 31 

Appropriated to October 31 

Balance in Committee Fund 



Patriotism Committee. 
Date In Favor of — 



$ 1,348.64 
4,748.42 

$ 6,097.06 
8,764.50 

$ 2,667.44 



Service 



Voucher No. Amount 



10 /lO Eclipse Electrotype Co., electros 114 

Western Union, telegrams 57 



3.50 
1.40 



164 



10 /31 Laura Rankin, salary 188 21. 2S 

J. C. Marks, salary 176 100.00 

Previous Expenditures 

*Total Expenditures to October 31 



126.15 
314.07 



$ 440.22 



Provost-Marshal-General. 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

10 /18 K. McCallig, salary 163 $ 42.00 

Previous Expenditures 

Total Expenditures to October 31 

Appropriated to October 31 • 

Balance in Committee Fund 



42.00 
156.00 



198.00 
400.00 



202.00 



Publicity Committee. 
Date In Favor of — 



Service 



Voucher No. Amount 



10/10 Troop A Academy, horses 59 $ 56.00 

Excelsior Stamp Works, stamps 74 1.30 

Plain Dealer, papers 64 1.50 

Plain Dealer, papers 75 16.90 

H. Korman, papers 76 21.69 

Cleveland Press, papers 79 2.74 

Western News Union, CleveUind Soldier 87 30.00 

Cleveland Press, papers 116 3.50 

Cleveland Telephone Co., L. D. calls 117 1.36 

Cleveland Co., papers 118 8.10 

$143.09 
10/31 (Transferred to Military Committee — Godspeed 
Day) 

Carlton Music Co., band 393 125.00 

Harris Printing Co., cards, patriotic songs 430 14.50 

Kiltie Band, Godspeed Day 448 75.00 

F. Irwin, electrical work 449 10.50 

R. Dieger, electrical work 450 10.50 

G. A. Jackson, band 453 64.00 

E. A. Smiley, personal expenses: 

Miscellaneous expense, account Godspeed Day 51 32.50 

Union Sign Co., signs. Godspeed Day 451 2.50 

Troop A Academy, horses. Godspeed Day.... 59 56.00 

$390.50 
Previous Expenditures $ 1,628.43 

Total Expenditures to October 31 $ 1,771.52 

Credits 390.50 

*Total , $ 1,381.02 



War Garden Committee. 
Date In Favor of — 



Service 



Voucher No. Amount 



10 /IS C. F. Knirk, salary 133 $ 83.37 

10/31 C. F. Knirk, salary 177 75.00 

Previous Expenditures 

Total Expenditures to October 31 

Appropriated to October 31 

Balance in Committee Fund - 



$ 158.37 
3,807.93 

$ 3,966.30 
10,000.00 

$ 6,033.70 



Women's Committee. 
Date In Favor of- 



Service 



Voucher No. Amount 



10/10 Western Union Tel. Co., telegrams 57 $ 2.14 

Remington Typewriter Co., rental 97 7.50 

Heiser Co., photos 99 11.00 

Hiles & Coggshall, printing 107 80.50 

Burrows Bros. Co., supplies 110 .40 

L. M. Reibel, multigraph 113 5.40 

Eclipse Electrotype Co., electros 114 3.50 

Cleveland Telephone Co., L. D. calls 117 3.24 

10/15 Whittle Sign Co., signs 119 3.60 



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Anna Connors, salary 124 37.50 

G. A. Wolfe, salary 132 62.50 

10/31 Anna Connors, salary 179 42.50 

G. A. Wolfe, salary 183 62.50 

$ 322.28 

Previous Expenditures 1,018.09 

Total Expenditures to October 31 $ 1,340.37 

Appropriated to October 31 14,600.00 

Balance in Committee Fund $ 13,259.63 



*No appropriation for this account. Disbursed from General Fund. 



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STATEMENT OF MAYOR'S ADVISORY WAR COMMITTEE 
as of October 31st, 1917 

April 26, 1917 Cleveland Trust Co. (Note) $5,000.00 

Ma,y 26 Cleveland Trust Co. (Note) 5,000.00 

$10,000.00 

May 19 Society for Savings (Note) 10,000.00 

May 25 Sale of Seed Potatoes $ 2,205.25 

May 31 Sale of Seed Potatoes 1,846.28 

June 4 Sale of Seed Potatoes 925.02 

June 4 Sale of Seed Potatoes 2,093.46 

July 18 Sale of Seed Potatoes 226.48 

October 17 Sale of Seed Potatoes 150.00 

7,446.49 

October S Sale of Seed Buckwheat 22.25 

October 5 Refund of freight charges 99.68 

121.93 

May Interest on deposits 7.36 

June Interest on deposits 20.85 

July and August Interest on deposits 43.79 

September Interest on deposits 37.40 

October Interest on deposits 48.77 

-. 158.17 

August 4 Contribution 61.00 

July 9 Red Cross appropriated 50,000.00 

October 30 Red Cross appropriated 35,000.00 

85,061.00 

September 21 Proceeds of discounting County 

Commissioners' note for $25,000. 17,703.51 



Total . 



$130,491.10 



F. H. GOFF, 

By L. E. Oakley. 



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Meeting of the Executive Committee 
November 7, 1917 

A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Mayor's Advisory War 
Committee was held in the Mayor's office at 2 :30 P. M., November 7th, 
1917. 

Present : Messrs. Adams, Feiss, Mooney and Otis. Mr. Adams pre- 
sided as Chairman. 

Reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was dispensed with. 

In behalf of the pending proposition that the Mayor's Advisory War 
Committee appropriate from its funds for the support of night classes in 
English in parochial school buildings, churches, settlement houses and 
other institutions not covered by the Board of Education appropriation 
for such purposes, Harold T. Clark, Chairman of the sub-Committee on 
Americanization presented Messrs. Wiles and Castle of the Department of 
Educational Extension of the school administration and Miss A. F. 
Kosbab, head resident of the East End Neighborhood House, who each 
argued the need of such instruction. Following discussion, it was decided, 
on motion of Mr. Otis, seconded by Mr. Feiss, that the sum of $3,000_be 
appropriated to the Board of Education to defray the expense of employing 
teachers for these extra classes, it being understood that the sum appro- 
priated would take care of at least 15 such classes and that supervision and 
control of all such classes would be reposed entirely in the Board of 
Education. 

Upon reading of the following communication from Mrs. Mattie A. 
McAdoo, No. 10515 Massie Ave., the Executive Secretary was instructed 
to suggest to Mrs. McAdoo that she seek such appropriation from the 
Red Cross, inasmuch as this Committee has no authority to expend its 
funds in such a manner : 

"I am president of a club of ladies which has been organized for 
the purpose of knitting sweaters for the colored soldiers in the train- 
ing camps. The local Red Cross was kind enough to supply the boys 
of Company D, of the State National Guard, who left for Montgomery 
several weeks ago, with sweaters and socks, but the four hundred 
colored drafted men who went to Chillicothe a week ago were not 
supplied, and since there is no doubt that with the approaching winter 
they will need warm clothing, we wish to make it our task to supply 
that need. 

"We need money to buy yarn to knit sweaters, etc., for them, 
and it has been suggested that I make application through you to the 
Mayor's Advisory War Committee, and ask the Committee to render 
sucli assistance as it can, by way of an appropriation or otherwise, 
to further the purposes of our club. An appropriation of $300.00 
would furnish all the yarn which we need for our immediate pur- 
poses. Any assistance which you or the Committee can render us 
in that behalf will be greatly appreciated by the ladies of the club 
and by its beneficiaries. 

"We are quite willing to make any report of our work and the 
disposition of its results that may be desired." 

When the pending request from the D. A. R. for a $6,000 loan toward 
the building of a "hostess house" or dormitory in the group of such build- 
ings planned for erection at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, came up, con- 
siderable discussion pro and con followed. When Mr. Feiss' motion, 
seconded by Mr. Mooney, that this committee agree to endorse the 
D. A. R.'s note at bank for such a sum, was voted on, Messrs. Feiss and 
Mooney voted in the affirmative, and Messrs. Adams and Otis in the nega- 
tive. The proposition was passed until the succeeding meeting for final 
disposition. 

The Executive Secretary was authorized to proceed at once to make 
a survey or appraisal of the labor situation in Cleveland with a view 
toward securing a more or less definite line on the opportunities that may 
exist for the finding of employment for Cleveland soldiers who have 
returned from the front maimed or otherwise disabled. While it was 
pointed out that this Committee may not be called upon to perform such 
service within six months or a year, it was the sense of the meeting that 

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it would be better to begin such effort at this time and thus be prepared. 

The Executive Secretary was authorized to work out with Mr. Knirk, 
director of war gardens, the methods by which manure for fertilizer is to 
be furnished war gardeners at bare cost to this Committee. 

The Executive Secretary was directed to take under his active super- 
vision an immediate effort to collect the outstanding accounts receivable 
of the County Food Commissioner in an effort to restore to this com- 
mittee's funds as quickly as possible moneys owing by persons who were 
furnished seed potatoes, seed buckwheat, etc. 

Following the reading of this communication from Henry E. Sheffield, 
acting secretary of the Cleveland Red Cross War Council, addressed to the 
Executive Secretary and dated October 22, 1917 : 

"At the meeting of the Cleveland Red Cross War Council on 
October 19th your letter stating the request of the Executive Com- 
mittee for an additional $35,000.00 to replenish your funds was read. 

"The War Council appropriated $35,000.00 for the above men- 
tioned purpose, and at the same time requested me to write to your 
Committee asking for an estimate of the probable financial needs of 
the Mayor's Advisory War Committee up to July 1st, 1918. Will 
you please take this up with the Executive Committee?" 

the Executive Secretary was directed to send this reply to Samuel Mather, 
Chairman : 

"Replying to the letter of Oct. 22nd, advising us of your appro- 
priation to us of $35,000.00 and requesting that this Committee furnish 
the Cleveland Red Cross War Council with an estimate of its probable 
additional financial needs up to July 1, 1918: 

"We estimate we will require $165,000.00 additional to carry us 
until July 1st, unless a sudden ending of the war should bring our 
activities to an end before that time." 



The meeting adjourned at 3 :20 P. M. 



SAM B. ANSON, 
Executive Secretary. 



REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE TO DATE 

(Read at Executive Committee Meeting, Nov. 7, 1917) 
Previous Distributions : 

(I) Executive Committee $ 1,968.35 

( 2 ) War Garden Committee 3,966.30 

( 3 ) General Office 5,063.80 

(4) Publicity Committee 1,771.82 

(5) County Food Commissioner 20,187.47 

( 6 ) Military Committee 5,732.07 

K7 ) Women's Committee 1,340.37 

( 8 ) Americanization 4,599.70 

(9) County Draft Board 3,575.21 

(10) A. P. L 1,172.29 

(II) Food Conservation Committee 412.50 

Bills Payable 20,258.64 



$70,048.52 



Distribution of November 1st, 1917 



oucher No. 


In favor of 


Account Charged 


Amoun 


192 


Marie R. Snyde 


(3) 


$ 8.00 


196 


Katherine McCallig (3) 


42.00 


197 


Eleanor Friedman 


(3) 


72.00 


193 


George Phillips 


(9) 


30.00 


194 


Charles Dempster 


(9) 


15.00 


195 


N. F. Orkin 


(9) 


7.00 


198 


W. H. Keeling 


(9) 


70.00 


199 


C. H. A. Palmer 


(9) 


58.32 


200 


W. C. Clarke 


(9) 


35.00 


201 


A. M. Scotland 


(9) 


23.66 


202 


Frank Seacrist 


(9) 


14.00 


203 


Mrs. A. G. Jenkins 


(9) 


3.00 


204 


Magdalene Taylor 


(9) 


7.00 


205 


Carl Bologna 


(9) 


7.00 


206 


E. Wasielewski 


(9) 


11.66 


207 


Harry Wills 


(9) 


23.66 



169 



208 


F. M. Patterson 


(9) 


35.00 






209 


C. J. C. Grant 


(9) 


23.66 






210 


Elmer Well 


(9) 


23.66 






211 


Hugh Alexander 


(9) 


65.00 


$ 


574.6: 



Total Distributions to Date $70,623.14 

Audited Oct. 31, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commissioner of 
Accounts. 

Distribution of Nov. 4th, 1917 



Voucher No. 


In favor of Account Charged 


Amount 




220 


Chas. W. Chesnutt 


(3) 


$ 20.30 




219 


Sam Ruple 


(5) 


112.00 




213 


Capt. H. P. Shupe 


(6) 


500.00 




214 


John Fairfax 


(6) 


34.00 




215 


J. A. Jackson 


(6) 


76.00 




216 


Jackson's Military Band 


(6) 


64.00 




217 


Arch C. Klumph 


(10) 


10.00 




218 


Lawrence C. Cole 


(8) 


7.00 




221 


Cleveland Company 


(11) 


50.00 






Total Distributions to Date 


(h 


873.30 




•P 




47 


1,496.44 



Audited Nov. 4, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commissioner of 
Accounts. 



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Meeting of the Executive Committee 
November 19, 1917 

A meeting of the Executive Committee was held in the Mayor's office 
at 3:30 P. M., November 19th, 1917. Present: Chairman Herrick, Mayor 
Davis, Messrs. Hayden, Squires, Goff and Otis ; present by invitation : 
Capt. H. P. Shupe and E. B. Greene, representing the Sub-Committee on 
Military Affairs. 

When the matter of the request of the D. A. R. for a $6,000 loan 
tov^rard the building of a "hostess house" or dormitory at Camp Sherman, 
Chillicothe, came up for final consideration, it vi^as unanimously agreed 
that this committee has no authority to expend its funds other than in 
connection with war emergencies within the city of Cleveland and the 
county of Cuyahoga. Mrs. Edward L. Harris, State Regent of the D. A. 
R. and Mrs. N. Stone Scott appeared in behalf of the D. A. R.'s request. 
Chairman Herrick explained to them the reasons why this committee 
feels that it lacks authority to so exp«nd its funds. 

Apropos of the following communication from Food Commissioher 
Dunham, dated November 8th : 

"I have an offer from Mr. M. E. Battles of $600 for one of 
the Cleveland Motor Plow Company's tractors and plow, which has 
been used by the County Food Commissioner during the past sea- 
son. Inasmuch as this tractor is not in perfect condition and prob- 
ably could not be disposed of at a price higher than this without 
going to some expense in advertising and delivering the machine I 
would advise that it be sold to Mr. Battles at the price named. 

"Because of the continued damp weather the potato crop on the 
farm at North Olmsted is, in my opinion, too poor to warrant the 
expense of employing labor at the present price to harvest, but I 
believe that it would be possible to sell the crop on a per bushel basis 
in the ground to certain persons in Cleveland, who could dig the 
potatoes themselves and make use of them. The price received would 
not run over 50c a bushel and might be less. However, I would ad- 
vise the sale of the potatoes in this manner." 

the Executive Secretary presented the following : 

"I submit the following report of my trip to North Olmsted, last 
Wednesday in company with Mr. Knirk, Director of War Gardens, 
Mr. A. T. Hall, a former employee of Food Commissioner Dunham 
and Mr. Hood, to look into existing conditions of our buckwheat 
and potato experiments there and our tractors and other farm 
equipment: 
Buckwheat on Asling farm near Stop 38, Lorain Road 

"Altogether, twenty-five acres were planted in buckwheat on this 
farm by Mr. Dunham and his assistants. I found that five acres 
of this had been reaped and bound and was standing in shocks in 
the field. The other twenty acres on two other plots of land was 
still standing and the explanation offered for this was that the land 
was so low and so wet that the farmer Mr. Dunham employed to 
reap it was unable to get traction for his binder. Mr. Knirk and 
neighboring farmers agreed that this was the case. 

"Mr. Knirk's judgment that it would be next to impossible to 
secure labor to cut the remaining buckwheat by hand and equally 
hard to secure a threshing crew to thresh not only the buckwheat 
standing on these twenty acres, but also the buckwheat that was cut 
and shocked on the five acre piece of land, was confirmed in discus- 
sions we had with neighboring farmers. This and the shortness of 
the season remaining led Mr. Knirk to recommend that we seek to 
find a purchaser in the neighborhood for all the buckwheat just as 
it stood. 

"We were able to find a purchaser only for the five acres which 
stood in shock. That we sold to one Joe Annaci, who lives about a 
rnile removed from the Asling farm. At Mr. Knirk's recommenda- 
tion, I took $25 00 in cash for this buckwheat. Annaci proposes to 
feed it to his chickens and if we are able to claim that we have 
done anything as regards those five acres in the direction of in- 
creased food production and increased food conservation, it might 
be argued indirectly that we will be thus increasing the production 
of eggs; and it is remotely possible, we m.ay be able to reduce the 
price per dozen to the consumers of the output of Joe Annaci's 200 
odd hens. 

"We failed entirely in our effort to sell the remaining twenty 
acres. Annaci and the other farmers promised to do what they could 
in the way of interesting their neighbors in the possibilities that lie 
in buying this crop as it stands and reaping and threshing it them- 

171 



selves. Obviously, unless something is done in this direction within 
the next two weeks, only the birds will get any benefit from this 
buckwheat. 

"Mr. Knirk and the others estimated that the yield per acre 
from these twenty-five acres on the Asling farm should average 
around fifteen bushels, totaling 375 bushels. I understand that the 
last market quoted on buckwheat was $2.05, which indicates that our 
return from these twenty-five acres, had the experiment been fully 
successful, would have been in excess of $750.00. 

Biickzeheat on DellenbaKgh farm near Stop 46, Lorain Road 

"The thirty-five acres of buckwheat on this farm has been reaped 
and shocked and stands in the field fairly crying for the threshing. 
We were told that this particular piece of buckwheat was recently 
referred to by "The Country Gentleman" as being the best crop of 
buckwheat grown this year in Northern Ohio. Mr. Knirk estimates 
that the yield will run fully twenty bushels to the acre, but here the 
same difficulty of securing labor and a threshing outfit presented 
itself. Threshing outfits have been working in the neighborhood, 
but because the season is now so late and labor is so scarce, it seems 
questionable if we can get this crop threshed. After we had made 
a fruitless trip to a mill at Grafton, Ohio, in an effort to sell the 
buckwheat in the shock to the miller, he to arrange himself for 
threshing, we returned and by dint of much dickering made a tenta- 
tive arrangement with Sam Ruple, who operates the Dellenbaugh 
farm, whereby he is to harvest the crop on slaares — providing he finds 
by the end of this week that he can get a thresher crew. If Mr. 
Ruple is successful in this effort, Mr. Knirk estimates that our share 
of the transaction, which is on a fifty-fifty basis will be around 
$500.00. In case Mr. Ruple goes through with the arrangement, we 
are going to do our best to check him so as to insure that this 
Committee gets all of its fifty percent. 

Potatoes on Dellenbaugli farm 

"This fifteen acre potato patch was cultivated assiduously up 
until August 1st when, I am told by Mr. Dunham and other who 
were connected with him, he was given instructions to suspend^ opera- 
tion, discharge all hands and let the potatoes work out their own 
salvation. Because as a consequence, there has been no cultivation 
or ditching since August 1st, these fifteen acres, even in spite of the 
early dry weather we have had in the last two weeks, were a 
veritable bog on Wednesday. Weeds have grown up in such pro- 
fusion that it really was difficult to distinguish the rows of potato 
plants. 

"Mr. Knirk is inclined to the belief that the best thing that we 
can do with this potato patch is to give outright what few potatoes 
that are there to some city or private institution which may be in 
a position to send its inmates to dig them up. 

"There is a remote possibility, however, that we might find 
someone with a speculative side who might be willing to pay around 
twenty-five cents per bushel for the potatoes he could dig himself. 
Tractors and other machinery 

"The tractor we bought from the International Harvester Com- 
pany stands in a dilapidated shed on the Asling farm, practically 
exposed to the weather. Nothing has been done in the way of greas- 
ing it to prevent the exposed parts from rusting, and a. superficial 
examination of the machine by Mr. Knirk shows that it is in only 
fair condition. Out in the barnyard in front of this shed is lying a 
gang plow, which is part of the equipment of this tractor; utterly 
exposed to the weather. According to Mr. Hall, there was stored 
in this shed when he and the other assistants of Mr. Dunham were 
dismissed on August 1st, a number of bags of fertilizer, a con- 
siderable collection of tractor parts, small tools, etc., in addition to 
three tanks containing respectively forty gallons of gasoline, thirty 
gallons of kerosene and twenty-five gallons of lubricating oil. All 
that was remaining on Wednesday was six bags of fertilizer, one of 
these tanks (it was empty) and a few broken tractor parts. 

"Over on the Dellenbaugh farm, a seven foot seed drill be- 
longing to this Committee is under roof in an old barn, but the barn 
and its roof are in such condition as to afford little protection, if 
any, from the weather. With the exception of the two tractors pur- 
chased from the Cleveland Motor Plow Company, one of which is 
in their factory and the other is on the farm of M. E. Battles in 
Mayfield Township, the above are all that remains of our original 
rather complete equipment. 

"We thought at first that it would be feasible to bring the 
tractor from the Asling farm into the city on its own power with 
the seed drill and other outfits of the equipment that are left trailing 
behind it. My idea was to stole these either in some warehouse con- 
trolled by the city or put it in my own barn and to keep it at one 
place or another until the Committee decides what disposition it 
wants to make of our farm equipment. The International Harvester 
people, however, vetoed the idea on the ground that driving the 
tractor over the hard city pavements would rack it to pieces. Unless 
we wish to go to the expense of having the tractor (which must 

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weigh a ton and a half) loaded on an automobile truck and thus 
brought into the city, we will have to find a suitable and secure 
storage place for it somewhere near its present location. 

"I had hoped to accompany this report with a written report to 
the experts of the Cleveland Motor Plow Company and the Inter- 
national Harvester Company on the condition of each of the three 
tractors, but have been unable to get either concern to actually take 
pen in hand to make these reports, although they both have promised 
to do so. In view of what they have said verbally as to the condi- 
tion of these tractors and the possibilities of sale at this season, I 
recommend that the Committee, in the event of a decision to go out 
of the farming business, delay the sale of the machines until next 
spring, when they can be expected to bring better prices. It may 
be well worth our while to retain one of the Cleveland tractors, for 
use in plowing the larger war gardens next spring. 

"Mr. Metcalf, City Commissioner of Accounts, whom we asked 
several weeks ago to make a complete audit of Mr. Dunham's 
accounts, does not seem able to complete his work soon, because 
of press of his regular duties, which have increased of late be- 
cause of his activities in preparing the budget for the Mayor. He 
is unable to say when he will have the audit completed. When I 
communicated this fact to Mr. Goff on Friday, he suggested that 
we employ some outside firm of certified public accountants to take 
the job off Mr. Metcalf's hands and to proceed immediately with 
the audit. Mr. Goff feels, and I agree with him, that this audit is 
of sufficient importance to warrant such action and I would like to 
have the approval of the Executive Committee before making such 
an arrangement." 

Following discussion the report was received and Mr. Goff and the 
Executive Secretary, acting as a committee of two, were given authority 
to proceed, as they saw fit, to close up the affairs of the County Food 
Commissioner. 

The Executive Secretary read the following letter dated November 
10th, from Mr. J. B. Hebberd, representing the War Department Commis- 
sion on Training Camp Activities at Montgomery : 

"I have been postponing replying to your letter of October 
23rd, because after Mr. Chas. A. Otis' visit here, it appeared neces- 
sary to modify our plans somewhat; and it has been difiicult to know 
just what should be done for the soldiers. For the present we have 
abandoned the scheme of opening any particular club house in the 
down town section as a Cleveland Club. 

"We have, however, completed our plans and have actually begun 
work in converting a large Exhibition Building in the camp into a 
great recreational and entertainment centre, which will accommodate 
15,000 soldiers. This building will be used for basket ball, dancing, 
roller skating, boxing, wrestling, as well as for musical shows, public 
speaking, etc. 

"It was thought advisable to concentrate our efforts upon this 
particular building for the reason that it is in the geographic centre 
of the camp; and as soldiers can be entertained in this building it 
will do away with the necessity for going to the city so often; and 
will tend to develop a much stronger tie among the men. 

"The Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati has expressed a will- 
ingness to pay for the flooring and the building of the stage in this 
auditorium at a cost of $5,000. The contract for this work has been 
let and work has actually been started. It is the intention of the 
Committee to construct a small building on each side of the Ex- 
hibition Hall for shower baths, wash rooms, toilets, etc. I wonder 
if your War Advisory Committee or any other of Cleveland citizens 
can aid us in this work? Shower baths are a distinct necessity and 
particularly hot showers. The building we shall use is so large that 
it is possible for ten basket ball games to be played at one time 
and from a hygienic standpoint the showers will be required for the 
gymnasium work alone. However, niany soldiers will want showers 
during the day at such times as their convenience will allow. 

"It is our purpose to invite to the dances and some of the other 
functions the women of the city. Across the street from this Exhibi- 
tion Building will be fitted up a small building to be used by women 
visitors. Another item of expense will be the provision of seats in 
the hall. I had hoped to be able to send a copy of a letter ad- 
dressed to the Central Committee of the Chamber of Commerce by 
General Smith, in which he sets forth his opinion that this building 
is perhaps the greatest contribution which this comrnittee can make 
to the camp and further states the purpose for which the building 
may properly be used. This letter, however, has been forwarded 
the Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati for their consideration in 
formulating their plans to help lay the floor already mentioned. 

"I shall ask the architect to forvvard to you a set of drawings 
of the building with the small buildings on either side of the Exhibi- 
tion Hall indicated. Will you be good enough to call this matter to 
the attention of His Honor, the Mayor, and his Advisory War Com- 

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mittee; and ask if it is possible for them to consider helping us in 
the construction of the two small buildings referred to? Estimate 
for this building has been placed at $3,649." 

It was unanimously agreed that this committee has no authority to so 
expend its funds, for the reason previously cited in connection with the 
D. A. R. loan. 

The Executive Secretary read the following letter from Harold T. 
Clark, dated November 15th : 

"Enclosed please find copy of letter of resignation received 
from Mr. Raymond E. Cole, Executive Secretary of Americaniza- 
tion Committee. As stated to you today, a meeting of our Committee 
will be held within the next few days to formally accept Mr. Cole's 
resignation and take up other questions relative to Americanization 
work." 

And the accompanying letter from Mr. Cole : 

"It is with great regret that it seems advisable for me to tender 
my resignation as Secretary of the Americanization Committee. I 
have been offered a position in the East on Long Island in the line 
of community social service, which work I have been anxious to 
be affiliated with for some time. 

"It has been a real joy to serve in Cleveland and develop the 
Americanization field in my home city. I will always remember my 
associations with the various members of the Americanization Com- 
mittee with keen pleasure. I wish to take this opportunity to thank 
them, one and all for their splendid co-operation and support which 
was given to me as their Secretary." 

The above communications were ordered received and filed. 

The Executive Secretary reported that although the distribution of 
fertilizer at cost to war gardeners did not begin until Thursday, Novem- 
ber 15th, orders had been received for over 100 tons to date. He explained 
that the fertilizer, which is manure collected by the garbage collection 
department, is being sold in two-ton loads to war gardeners only and 
that individual orders are limited to two of these two-ton loads. He 
pointed out that cash in advance is being required with each order and 
that the price of $2.00 per two-ton load promises to cover actual cost of 
the manure and its delivery in a city automobile truck which is being 
hired on a per diem basis frotn the street cleaning department. 

When the Executive Secretary called the committee's attention to the 
fact that the $5,000 fund voted at the meeting of July 23rd to pay the 
additional salaries of the employees of the County Draft Board was 
within a few hundred dollars of being depleted, he was instructed to let 
the matter lie in abeyance pending the initiative of the County Draft 
Board. 

When the question of the day and hour of future meetings came up 
for discussion, it was finally decided to try as an experiment meeting at 
4 :00 P. M. on Friday, it being the feeling that this would be the most 
convenient day and hour for the majority of members. The Executive 
Secretary was directed, therefore, to call the next regular meeting for 
Friday, November 30th. 

Mr. Otis, as President of the Chamber of Commerce, submitted for 
the approval of the committee a copy of certain recommendations made by 
the Chamber's committee on river and harbor improvements in regard to 
the necessity of dredging the Cuyahoga river as a war emergency measure 
in order to provide a 24^ foot straight channel from the river mouth to 
the blast furnaces, so that ore-carrying vessels of the larger type can de- 
liver their cargoes direct to the blast furnaces and thus insure their con- 
tinued operation during the term of the war. 

Mr. Otis' communication carried with it the request that in case the 
recommendations met with the committee's approval they be transmitted to 
Mayor Davis for submission to City Council for the consideration of 
that body with the question for appropriating money for river and harbor 
improvement which comes up shortly. 

Mayor Davis pointed out that the financial condition of the city is 
such that only a special session of the legislature can provide money for 
this and a great number of other expenditures of which there is a press- 
ing need. In view of this, Mr. Otis moved that the committee merely 

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receive for reference to the Mayor the Chamber's recommendations, that 
he may in turn employ the need of this river improvement as an argument 
to the Chamber of Commerce as to the necessity of that body joining in 
his efforts to induce the Governor to call a special session of the legis- 
lature. Mr. Otis' motion was unanimously adopted. 

Capt. Shupe and Mr. Greene, speaking in behalf of the Sub-Committee 
on Miiltary Affairs, pointed out that it had been proposed that the two 
stands of regimental and national colors which had been made at the 
order of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee for the two regiments at 
Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, should be presented to the detachment which 
will represent the regiment in the maneuvers to be held in connection 
with the benefit National Army football game to be played at League 
Park next Saturday. They pointed out that through an erroneous 
assumption that the Mayor's Advisory War Committee would approve 
this plan, Secretary of War Baker had been telegraphed an invitation to 
present the colors in person and that he had replied that although he was 
unable to leave Washington himself he had ordered Benedict Crowell, 
Assistant Secretary of War, to come here on Saturday for that express 
purpose. 

After discussion it was unanimously decided to proceed with the 
original plan of having the Mayor present the colors to the entire regi- 
ment at Chillicothe on Tuesday, November 27th, and that as far as pos- 
sible members of this committee should consider it their duty to accom- 
pany the official party that goes to Chillicothe for this purpose. Messrs. 
Shupe and Greene were instructed to telegraph Secretary Baker of this 
attitude of the committee. 

The meeting adjourned at 4:45 P. M. 

Executive Secretary. 

REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE TO DATE 

(Read at Executive Committee Meeting, November 19, 1917) 
Previous Distributions : 

( 1) Executive Committe $ 1,968.35 

( 2) War Garden Committee 3,966.30 

(3) General Office 5,206.10 

( 4) Publicity Committee 1,771.52 

( 5) County Food Commissioner 20,299.47 

( 6) Military Committee 6,406.07 

( 7) Women's Committee 1,340.37 

( 8) Americanization 4,606.70 

(9) County Draft Board 4,027.83 

(10) A. P. L 1,182.29 

(11) Food Conservation Committee 462.50 

Bills Payable 20,258.64 

$71,496.14 

DISTRIBUTION OF NOVEMBER 10, 1917 

Check No. In Favor of — Account Charged Amount 

252 Burrows Bros. Co. (1) $ 18.72 

239 Eclipse Elec. & Eng. Co. (2) 11.67 

248 The Heiser Co. (2) 2.10 

255 A. S. Gilman Ptg. Co. (2) 15.00 

223 Helen G. Wood (3) 10.00 

227 Cleveland Desk Co. (3) 75.00 
231 Cleveland Tel. Co. (3) 1.83 

233 Cleveland Directory Co. (3) 12.00 

234 Cleveland Co. (3) 45.95 

244 Stratford Press (3) 70.50 

245 Republic Electric (3) 12.97 

246 Hiles & Coggshall Co. (3) 8.75 
248 The Heiser Co. (3) 13.85 

250 Remington Typewr. Co. (3) 4.00 

251 Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co. (3) 8.95 
, 252 Burrows Bros. Co. (3) 19.03 

254 Forman-Bassett Co. (3) 8.5S 

264 H. Korman (3) 2.30 

235 Cleveland News (4) 4.00 

228 Letter Specialty Co. (5) 3.00 

236 Cleveland Tractor Co. (5) 23.12 
241 Ohio Buick Co. (5) 5.20 
250 Remington Typewr. Co. (5) 3.00 

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249 C. C. C. &. St. L. Ry. Co. 

259 People's Transfer Co. 
225- L. E. Whitworth 

226 J. C. Beardsley 

229 Maj. J. J. Metzger 

230 Capt. H. Shupe 

237 East Ohio Gas Co. 

238 Cleveland Grays Co. 
256 Wagner Mfg. Co. 

260 J. J. Metzger Sign Co. 

231 Cleveland Tel. Co. 

232 Central Co. Pub. Health 

Nurs. 

235 Cleveland News 

246 Hiles & Coggshall Co. 

251 Yawman & Erbe 

252 Burrows Bros. Co. 

256 Wagner Mfg. Co. 

253 Excelsior Stamp Works 
231 Cleveland Tel. Co. 
224 Artcraft Co. 

239 Eclipse Elec. & Eng. Co. 
246 Hiles & Coggshall Co. 

250 Remington Typewr. Co. 

251 Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co. 

252 Burrows Bros. Co. 

257 Union Paper & Twine Co. 

261 Harris Ptg. & Eng. Co. 
222 The Cuyahoga Lbr. Co. 

227 Cleveland Uesk Co. 

242 Postal Tel. Cable Co. 

240 Household Auction & 

Storage Co. 

243 Western Union Tel. Co. 

246 Hiles & Coggshall Co. 

247 The Brooks Co. 
252 Burrows Bros. Co. 

258 L. C. Smith & Bros. 

Typewriter Co. 

263 L. R. Ives Co. 

262 Merch. Toilet & Sup. Co. 

248 The Heiser Co. 



(5> 


2.50 


(5) 


35.00 


(6) 


10.00 


(6) 


2.25 


(6) 


7.50 


(6) 


112.40 


(6) 


105.02 


(6) 


81.00 


(6) 


37.50 


(6) 


34.65 


(7) 


3.55 


(7) 


27.38 


(7) 


17.36 


(7) 


18.32 


(7) 


11.46 


(7) 


1.25 


(7) 


10.00 


(7) 


3.00 


(8) 


.20 


(8) 


414.70 


(8) 


15.67 


(8) 


5.12 


(8) 


3.00 


(8) 


2.50 


(8) 


.30 


(8) 


39.90 


(8) 


105.00 


(10) 


1.03 


(10) 


3.00 


(10) 


.39 


(10) 


104.00 


(10) 


1.05 


(10) 


7.06 


(10) 


33.05 


(10) 


4.70 


(10) 


8.25 


(10) 


5.00 


(10) 


1.00 


(11) 


12.00 




* 1 £C£ ee 







Total Distributions to Date $73,162.69 

Audited November 10, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commissioner 
of Accounts. 



DISTRIBUTION OF NOVEMBER IS, 1917 

Check No. In Favor of— Account Charged Amount 

288 S. B. Anson (1) $182.50 

269 D. C. Rudolph (2) 2.00 
287 C. F. Knirk (2) 75.00 
292 Western Union Tel. Co. (3) 40.00 

276 Effa B. Whiting (3) 34.50 

278 Margaret A. Wood (3) 25.00 

279 Raymond Porter (3) 37.50 

280 A. H. Hood (3) 62.50 

283 Hazel Blattner (3) 42.50 

285 Laura Rankin ■ (3) 42.50 

286 J. C. Marks (3) 50.00 
292 Western Union Tel. Co. (7) 6.60 

270 Joseph Dular (7) 20.00 

271 Ida E. Schott (7) 80.00 
282 G. A. Wolfe (7) 62.50 

289 Anna Connors (7) 42.50 
292 Western Union Tel. Co. (8) 3.18 

272 A. W. Chaloupka (8) 20.00 

273 Mrs. Eva Hruby (8) 15.75 

274 Anna Rice (8) 15.75 

275 Mrs. Isabelle Sack (8) 20.25 

281 Helen Bacon (8) 75.00 

284 L. C. Cole (8) 75.00 

285 Laura Rankin (8) 21.25 

290 Joe Trinastic (8) 40.00 

291 Barbara Hornyak (8) 37.50 

265 C. A. Cowgill (10) 97.50 

266 Ella B. Hiatt (10) 40.00 

267 Grace G. Murphy (10) 37.50 

268 Estelle Novak (10) 30.00 

277 E. A. Smiley (11) 100.00 



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310 
309 
293 
294 
295 
296 
297 
298 
299 
300 
301 
302 
303 
304 
305 
306 
307 
308 
349 
336 
332 
311 
312 
313 

314 
315 
316 

317 
318 
319 
320 
321 
322 
323 
324 
325 
326 
327 
328 
329 
330 
331 
333 
334 
335 
337 
338 
339 
340 
341 
342 
343 
344 
345 
346 
347 
348 



Eleanor Friedman 

Katherine McCallig 

W. C. Clarke 

A. M. Scotland 

Frank Seacrist 

Harry Wills 

Mrs. A. G. Jenkins 

Carl Bologna 

Magdalene Taylor 

F. M. Patterson 

C. J. C. Grant 

Elmer Welf 

Hugh Alexander 

Lily Root 

Geo. Phillip 

Charles Dempster 

N. F. Orkin 

W. H. Keeling 

Geo- P. Samman 

Frank B. Hollenbach 

The Brooks Co. 

Art Engr. & Colortype Co. 

The Jewish Daily News 

"Hlas" Slovak Daily & 

Weekly Paper 
Cleveland News 
The Lawrence Publ. Co. 
The Doyle & Waltz 

Printing Co. 
Cleveland News 
Cleveland Topics Co. 
The Harris Prtg. Co. 
H. D. North 
Clev. Cham, of Com. 
Chamber of Com. Club 
Harris Prtg. & Engr. Co. 
Halter Sign Co. 
Ohio News Bureau Co. 
Jewish Rev. & Observer 
Stearn Adv. Co. 
The Jewish Independent 
Lakewood Press 
Roger Williams Press 
Chas. Dahn 
Thos. Cusack Co. 
Advertisers Matrix Co. 
Szabadsag 

Crane Lithograph Co. 
The Bryan Co. 
The Otis Lithograph Co. 
Cleveland Press 
Fuller & Smith 
Plain Dealer Pub. Co. 
Chagrin Falls Exponent 
The Jewish World 
The Romanul Co. 
Postal Tel. Co. 
V. M. Wellman 
The Caxton Co. 



Total Distributions to Date 



(3) 


$ 36.00 


(3) 


42.00 


(9) 


35.00 


(9) 


23.66 


(9) 


14.00 


(9) 


6.66 


(9) 


7.00 


(9) 


7.00 


(9) 


7.00 


(9) 


35.00 


(9) 


23.66 


(9) 


23.66 


(9) 


35.00 


(9) 


27.50 


(9) 


11.67 


(9) 


23.66 


(9) 


7.00 


(9) 


70.00 


( 3 


$200.00 


( 6 


3.75 


(10 


8.00 




56.00 




) 50.00 




50.00 




1,071.56 




8.10 




988.30 




794.64 




) 46.00 




4.25 




) 12.00 




1.08 




20.20 




14.50 




) 32.00 




5.00 




) 73.50 




) 490.00 




) 60.00 




) 38.50 




) 95.00 




) 6.00 




180.00 




) 7.33 




) 180.00 




) 281.70 




1,075.00 




) 300.00 




2,343.60 




) 11.48 




1,376.55 




) 25.00 




) 121.20 




) 150.00 




) .60 




) 4.10 




) 246.80 




<M A yITI '7A 






De 


ite... $85,442.93 



Audited November 15, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commissioner 
of Accounts. 



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Meeting of the Executive Committee 
November 30, 1917 

A meeting of the Executive Committee was held in the Mayor's office 
on Friday, November 30th, at 4 P. M. 

Present: Chairman Herrick, and Messrs. Otis, Squire, Adams, Goff, 
Greenlund and Feiss. 

The Chairman's arrival being delayed by other business, Mr. Adams 
acted as chairman temporarily. 

The following report from the Executive Secretary was read and 
approved : 

Thus far, I have been able to collect only $389 of the total of 
$2,300 in accounts receivable for seed buckwheat and implements 
turned over to me November 9th by Food Commissioner Dunham. 
Of this, $119 representing the account of Dr. R. H. Bishop, Jr., who 
bought two cultipackers and one disc harrow from Mr. Dunham 
(the collection of which was previously reported verbally) and the 
other is $270 collected from Frank C. Newcomer representing ninety 
bushels of seed potatoes at $3 a bushel. This last item appeared on 
Mr. Dunham's original accounts receivable as being $425, or 125 
bushels at $3.40 a bushel. 

Mr. Newcomer was perfectly willing to pay the $425 if we 
insisted. He demonstrated to my satisfaction that not only of the 
count of bushels actually delivered, ninety rather than 125, that he 
had been offered them at $3 a bushel (which was the standard price 
for seed potatoes to farmers) and that delivery of these seed 
potatoes was delayed until so late that he was unable to plant them 
and had to let them rot. In view of these facts and Mr. New- 
comer's wish to be fair in the situation, I took the liberty of 
approving a settlement on the basis of 90 bushels at $3 per bushel. 

Our Mogul tractor, which had been exposed to the weather on 
the Asling farm in North Olmsted, was brought to town last week 
and I have put it in my barn. I expect to have the one of our two 
Cleveland tractors, which is on the farm of M. E. Battles, put into my 
barn by the first of next week. The second Cleveland tractor has 
bee« in the plant of the Cleveland Tractor Company for some months, 
ever since it was sent there for overhauling. The overhauling has 
been done and in the lack of a disposition on the part of the Cleve- 
land Tractor people to insist that we store the tractor elsewhere, I 
am_ leaving it there, feeling that it is in good hands. A seed drill, 
which we own also, is still on the Dellenbaugh farm in North Olm- 
sted, but I expect to bring that into town in a few days and store 
it in my barn. 

In regard to the 35 acres of buckwheat which was cut and 
shocked on the Dellenbaugh farm and for the threshing and market- 
ing of which I made a fifty-fifty-on-shares arrangement with Sam 
Ruple, the farmer who was operating this farm, the threshing and 
marketing operation has proceeded to the point of Ruple's taking the 
buckwheat in off the fields and storing it in his barn. He claims 
that he has been unable to get coal thus far, but just as soon as he 
does, he promises to thresh it and dispose of it. We are keeping 
as close a check on him as is practical at long range. 

I regret to report that weather conditions have been such that 
I have been absolutely unable to make any disposition of the potatoes 
on the Dellenbaugh farm. The weather precluded even the possi- 
bility of my turning them over to some charitable organization. 
These potatoes, then, should be regarded as a total loss. 

Ernst & Ernst are making an audit of Mr. Dunham's accounts 
and I expect to have their report in a few days. In the meantime, 
Mr. Dunham has resigned his connection with the Chamber of Com- 
merce and resigned also the appointment Governor Cox gave him 
last Spring as War Food Commissioner for Cuyahoga County. Mr. 
Dunham is now living in Painesville. 

Following the discussion of the subjoined report presented by the 
Executive Secretary, it was finally moved by Mr. Adams, seconded by 
Mr. Feiss, and adopted, that the Committee bear as its contribution to the 
war garden movement the additional expense referred to in the report. It 
was estimated that this additional expense would be at the rate of 50 cents 
per ton of fertilizer. 

Up to today noon, we had taken orders for a total of 636 tons 
of manure for fertilizer for war gardens, which orders on file have 
been paid for in advance. We are delivering the loads just as fast 
as we can in the order in which the orders were received. I think 
I should inform the committee at this time that we are not, after 
all, going to be able to make this activity self-sustaining. When we 
started out to sell this manure at $2 for two ton loads delivered, we 

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had no idea that the demand would reach its present proportions. 
On the basis of the demand we anticipated, $2 per load would have 

taken care of the entire cost, but we hadn't been in the business 
of selling manure for more than three da,ys before Mr. Knirk and I 
realized that we had greatly underestimated the demand. The one 
truck which we hired from the city on a $S per day basis could not 
possibly fill the orders we have on file now short of six weeks. Be- 
cause we have sent letters to every v/ar gardener, stating that the 
price would be $2 per load, we feel that we cannot, at this late day, 
increase the price without considerable disaffection, and besides, we 
already have their money, so I took the liberty on Monday last of 
engaging another truck from a private contractor in the inability of 
the city to furnish a second truck and our similar inability to make 
such an arrangement with private owners to whom we appealed on 
the basis of patriotism. This truck with driver and helper is costing 
us $20 a day. The arrangement was made for one week only, it 
being my desire to present the situation to the Committee before 
assuming this expense for a longer period. 

Mr. Herrick entered the room at this juncture and took charge of 
the meeting as chairman. 

Messrs. T. A. Robertson, managing editor of the News and the 
Leader ; Erie C. Hopwood, managing editor of the Plain Dealer, and Frank 
J. Ryan, managing editor of the Press, and W. J. Raddatz, Chairman of 
the Sub-Committee on Publicity, appeared in behalf of their joint proposal 
that the Mayor's Advisory War Board endorse and underwrite a benefit 
theatrical performance to be held on December 11th for the purpose of 
raising funds with which to buy Christmas packages for all of the Cleve- 
land soldiers at Camp Sheridan, Montgomery. Mr. Raddatz outlined their 
plans in detail. He said it was expected to raise not to exceed $10,000 
for the purpose of sending each Cleveland soldier at Camp Sheridan a 
Christmas box containing candy, cigars and cigarettes at a cost not to 
exceed $2 per individual. Distribution of these gifts, he said, would be 
placed in the hands of the division commander in all likelihood. 

In the general discussion that followed, the question of the propriety 
of the Mayor's Advisory War Board endorsing and financing a Christmas 
project which did not attempt to include all Cleveland soldiers, whether 
they be at Camp Sheridan or elsewhere, was seriously questioned, it being 
pointed out that there are numbers of Cleveland soldiers at Camp Pike, 
Camp Deven, Fort Myer, AUentown, Pa., and elsewhere. Mr. Otis and 
other members of the committee argued, in addition, that the soldiers at 
Camp Sheridan have no cause to complain that they have received less at 
the hands of the Mayor's Advisory War Board or Cleveland as a com- 
munity than have the soldiers at Camp Sherman. 

When it seemed that the general sentiment of the committee was 
opposed to endorsing the project as it stood, Chairman Herrick suggested 
to Mr. Raddatz and his associates that they adjourn to the Mayor's com- 
mittee room and there caucus in an effort to agree on some plan which 
would be comprehensive enough to take care of all Qeveland soldiers 
whose present military addresses are obtainable, and return with their 
decision later in the meeting. Just before the meeting adjourned, Mr. 
Raddatz sent word that in the inability of the newspaper representatives 
to agree on such a program, it was his request that the matter be deferred 
until the next meeting. 

J. Wayne Hart, Chairm_an of the Cuyahoga County Administration of 
the Federal Food Control Commission, then presented to the committee a 
request for funds with which to finance the activities of the Commission, 
which has to do with the control and regulation of food supply and food 
prices. He explained that his Commission, which is composed pi seven 
members, was appointed by Fred C. Croxton, Federal Food Administrator 
for Ohio, to perform these definite functions, and that no arrangement had 
been made for defraying the expenses of the Commission. He stated that 
headquarters had been opened at 205 New Court House, and that Mr. 
Frank O. Spencer had been placed in charge as secretary. Mr. Spencer, 
he said, is volunteering his services at the present time, but that it is the 
wish of the Commission to compensate Mr. Spencer at the rate of $100 a 
month. Mr. Hart presented the following budget as the Commission's 
estimate of the money needed to finance its activities for one year : 

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Permanent Secretary $100 per month $1,200 per year 

Publicity Agent 150 per month 1,800 per year 

Stenographer 85 per month 1,020 per year 

Miscellaneous expenses, covering 
office expenses, stationery, tele- 
grams, telephone, postage, etc... 100 per month 1,200 per year 
Special county expenses, printing, 

etc 65 per month 780 per year 

Total $6,000 

Mr. Adams stated that so far as he could see, there was not one item 
in Mr. Hart's budget that did not represent a service already available in 
the headquarters of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee at 226 City 
Hall, and suggested that the Commission move its headquarters from the 
New Court House to City Hall and thus take advantage of the organiza- 
tion which already exists there. Mr. Hart replied that it was the Commis- 
sion's intention to so transfer its headquarters, but it felt its work to be of 
such importance that there would be a necessity for the employment of a 
permanent, paid secretary and provision for the other items of expendi- 
ture outlined in the budget. 

The Executive Secretary was asked by Mr. Feiss if there wasn't a 
possibility that Miss Sherwin's Women's Sub-Committee was already dupli- 
cating some of the work contemplated by the Food Control Commission, 
and the latter replied he thought it was. He said he based his conclusion 
on conversations he had had with Miss Wolfe, secretary-in-charge of the 
Women's Sub-Committee, and that he was awaiting the return of Miss 
Sherwin to this city to arrange a conference between her, Mr. Hart and 
Mr. Harold D. North for the purpose of ironing out these duplications 
if possible. Action on Mr. Hart's application for funds was deferred, 
and the Executive Secretary was instructed to so confer with Miss Sher- 
win and Mr. Hart, and to report at the next meeting, not only as to the 
possibilities of duplication, but also as to the result of his investigations 
as to the necessity of employing an extra secretary and making the other 
expenditures outlined in Mr. Hart's budget. 

It was also suggested that the Executive Secretary ask Mr. Croxton 
to appear before the Committee, if possible, at its next meeting. 

The Executive Secretary reported that he had a letter from Mr. North, 
in which he presented to the Executive Committee his resignation of the 
chairmanship of the Sub-Committee on Food Administration. Mr. North's 
reasons for this action are best outlined in the following excerpt from his 
letter, which is dated November 30 : 

"* * * I think it only right that I tender at this time my resig- 
nation as Chairman of the Sub-Committee of the Mayor's Advisory 
War Committee, known as Sub-Committee on Food Administration, 
inasmuch as the Cuyahoga County Food Administration Committee is 
headed by J. Wayne Hart as Chairman, and is now the standing Com- 
mittee for the War period. 

"I assure you that I appreciate the appointment made, but in 
fairness to the Food Administration Committee mentioned above, feel 
that my resignation, vmder the circumstances, should be accepted." 

No action was taken on Mr. North's resignation. 

The Executive Secretary read the following letter of commendation, 
dated November 24, addressed to the Mayor's Advisory War Committee 
by Herbert Hoover, U. S. Food Administrator, for the five food adminis- 
tration signs the Committee has caused to be erected in different parts of 
the city: 

"We are indeed grateful for the splendid co-operation your organi- 
zation has given us in our work. Such publicity will aid materially in 
bringing our people to a realization of the seriousness of their situa- 
tion and the necessity for strictest economy throughotit the War. 

"Permit me ta thank your organization for its valuable assistance 
and to hope that these signs will be maintained until peace is de- 
clared." 

The meeting adjourned at 5 :30 P. M. 

SAM B. ANSON, 
Executive Secretary. 

180 



REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE TO DATE 

(Read at Executive Committee Meeting, November 30, 1917) 

Previous Distrihutions : 

(I) Executive Committee $2,169.57 

( 2) War Garden Committee 4,072.07 

(3) General Office 6,091.03 

( 4) Publicity Committee 1,775.52 

( 5) County Food Commissioner 20,371.29 

(6) Miiltary Committee 6,800.14 

( 7) Women's Committee 1,644.29 

( 8) Americanization 5,516.77 

( 9) County Draft Board 4,385.30 

(10) A. P. L 1,563.82 

(II) Food Conservation Committee 10,794.49 

Bills Payable 20,258.64 





DISTRIBUTION OF 


NOVEMBER 


30, 1917 


icher 


No. In Favor of — Ace 


;ount Charged 


Amount 


377 


Sam B. Anson 


(1) 


$182.50 


378 


C. F. Knirk 


(2) 


75.00 


379 


J. C. Marks 


(3) 


50.00 


380 


Laura Rankin 


(3) 


28.33 


382 


Hazel Blattner 


(3) 


42.50 


385 


A. H. Hood 


(3) 


62.50 


386 


Margaret A. Wood 


(3) 


25.00 


387 


Raymond Porter 


(3) 


37.50 


388 


E. B. Whiting 


(3) 


32.50 


376 


Anna Connors 


(7) 


42.50 


383 


G. A. Wolfe 


(7) 


62.50 


366 


A. W. Chaloupka 


(8) 


42.00 


367 


Mrs. Eva Hruby 


(8) 


18.00 


368 


Anna Rice 


(8) 


18.00 


369 


Mrs. Isabell Sack 


(8) 


36.00 


370 


E. S. Miller 


(8) 


15.00 


371 


L. E. Carter 


(8) 


12.50 


380 


Laura Rankin 


(8) 


14.17 


381 


L. C. Cole 


(8) 


75.00 


384 


Helen Bacon 


(8) 


75.00 


389 


Barbara Hornyak 


(8) 


37.50 


390 


Joe Trinastic 


(8) 


40.00 


350 


W. C. Clarke 


(9) 


32.50 


351 


A. M. Scotland 


(9) 


21.66 


352 


Frank Secrist 


(9) 


13.00 


353 


Carl Bologna 


(9) 


6.50 


354 


Magdalene Taylor 


(9) 


6.50 


355 


Mrs. A. G. Jenkins 


(9) 


10.50 


356 


F. M. Patterson 


(9) 


32.50 


357 


C. J. C. Grant 


(9) 


21.66 


358 


Oliver Welf 


(9) 


21.66 


359 


Hugh Alexander 


(9) 


32.50 


360 


George Phillip 


(9) 


10.84 


361 


Chas. W. Dempster 


(9) 


21.66 


362 


Carmi G. Sanford 


(9) 


21.66 


363 


N. F. Orkin 


(9) 


6.50 


364 


W. H. Keeling 


(9) 


65.no 


365 


Dorothy Buss 


(9) 


9.20 


372 


C. A. Cowgill 


(10) 


97.50 


373 


Grace G. Murphy 


(10) 


37.50 


374 


Estelle Novak 


(10) 


35.00 


375 


Ella B. Hiatt 


(10) 


42.50 


391 


Eleanor Friedman 


(3) 


72.00 


392 


Katherine McCallig 


(3) 


84.00 

* 1 "IOC -s/i 








Total Distributions to Date 


$87,169.27 



Audited November 30, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commis- 
sioner of Accounts. 



181 



ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES 
From November 1st to November 30th, Inclusive 



American Protective League 



Date 

11/4 
11/10 



11/lS 



13 /30 



In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount. 

Arch C. Klumph, postage 217 $ 10.00 

The Cuyahoga Lumber Co., telegrams 222 1.03 

Cleveland Desk Co., rent of furniture 227 3.00 

The Household Auction & Stor. Co., 4 desks... 240 104.00 

Postal Tel. Cable Co., telegram 242 .39 

W. U. Tel. Co., telegram 243 1.05 

Hiles & Coggshall, letterheads and plates 246 7.06 

The Brooks Co., supplies 247 33.05 

The Burrows Bros Co., supplies 252 4.70 

L. C. Smith Bros., rental typewriters, ribbons.. 258 8.25 

Merchants' Toilet Supply Co., service 262 1.00 

L. R, Ives Co., multigraphing 263 5.00 

C. A. Cowgill, salary 265 97.50 

Ella B. Hiatt, salary 266 40.00 

Grace G. Murphy, salary 267 37.50 

Estelle Novak, salary 268 30.00 

The Brooks Co., supplies 332 8.00 

C. A. Cowgill, salary 372 97.50 

Grace G. Murphy, salary 373 37.50 

Estelle Novak, salary 374 35.00 

Ella B. Hiatt, salary 375 42.50 

Previous Expenditures 

Total Expenditures to November 30, inclusive 

Appropriated to November 30 

Balance in Committee Fund November 30 



$ 604.03 
1,172.29 

$ 1,776.32 
2,500.00 

$ 723.68 



Americanization Committee. 



Date 

11/5 
11/10 



11/15 



In Favor of- 



Service 



Voucher No. Amount. 



11/30 



Lawrence C. Cole, expense "America First" 

Campaign 218 $ 7.00 

Cleveland Tel. Co., long distance calls 231 .20 

Eclipse Electro & Engr. Co., multi. plates 239 15.67 

Hiles & Coggshall, plate 246 S.12 

Remington Typewriter Co., rental 250 3.00 

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., cards 251 2.50 

Burrows Bros. Co., cards 252 .30 

Union Paper & Twine Co., envelopes 257 39.90 

Harris Ptg. & Engr. Co., printing 261 105.00 

Artcraft Co., printing 224 414.70 

A. W. Chaloupka, salary as teacher 272 20.00 

Mrs. Eva Hruby, salary as teacher 273 15.75 

Anna Rice, salary as teacher 274 15.75 

Mrs. Isabelle Sack, salary as teacher 275 20.25 

Helen Bacon, salary 281 7 5.00 

L. C. Cole, salary 284 75.00 

Laura Rankin, salary 285 21.25 

Western Union Tel. Co., telegrams 292 3.18 

Joe Trinastic, salary 290 40.00 

Barbara Hornyak, salary 291 37.50 

A. W. Chaloupka, salary as teacher 366 42.00 

Mrs. Eva Hruby, salary as teacher 367 18.00 

Anna Rice, salary as teacher 368 18.00 

Mrs. Isabell Sack, salary as teacher 369 36.00 

E. S. Miller, salary as teacher 370 15.00 

L. E. Carter, salary as teacher 371 12.50 

Laura Rankin, salary 380 14.17 

L. C. Cole, salary 381 75.00 

Helen Bacon, salary 384 75.00 

Barbara Hornyak, salary 389 37.50 

Joe Trinastic, salary 390 40.00 

Previous Expenditures 

Total Expenditures to November 30, inclusive 

Appropriated to November 30 

Balance in Committee Fund November 30 



$ 1,300.24 
4,599.70 

$ 5,899.94 
19,950.00 

$ 14,050.06 



182 



Bureau of Markets. 
Date In Favor of — 



Service 



Voucher No. Amount. 



11 /IS Geo. P. Sammon, one-fourth current expenses 
contracted in maintaining. Cleveland Market 
News Service 349 $200.00 

Previous Expenditures 

Total Expenditures to November 30, inclusive 

Appropriated to November 30 

Balance in Committee Fund November 30 



200.00 



400.00 
1,000.00 



600.00 



County Draft Board. 
Date In Favor of- 



Service 



Voucher No. Amount 



11/1 W. H. Keeling, salary 198 70.00 

Geo. Phillips, salary 193 30.00 

Chas. Dempster, salary 194 15.00 

N. F. Orkin, salary 195 7.00 

C. H. A. Palmer, salary 199 58.32 

W. C. Clarke, salary 200 35.00 

A. M. Scotland, salary 201 23.66 

Frank Seacrist, salary 202 14.00 

Mrs. A. G. Jenkins, salary 203 3.00 

Magdalene Taylor, salary 204 7.00 

Carl Bologna, salary 205 7.00 

E. Wasielewski, salary 206 11.66 

Harry Wills, salary 207 23.66 

F. M. Patterson, salary 208 35.00 

C. J. C. Grant, salary '. . . 209 23.66 

Elmer Well, salary 210 23.66 

Hugh Alexander, salary 211 65.00 

11/15 W. C. Clarke, salary 293 35.00 

A. M. Scotland, salary 294 23.66 

Frank Seacrist, salary 295 14.00 

Harry Wills, salary 296 6.66 

Mrs. A. G. Jenkins, salary 297 7.00 

Carl Bologna, salary 298 7.00 

Magdalene Taylor, salary 299 7.00 

F. M. Patterson, salary 300 35.00 

C. J. C. Grant, salary 301 23.66 

Elmer Welf , salary 302 23.66 

Hugh Alexander, salary 303 35.00 

Lily Root, salary 304 27.50 

Geo. Phillip, salary 305 11.67 

Charles Dempster, salary 306 23.66 

N. F. Orkin, salary 307 7.00 

W. H. Keeling, salary 308 70.00 

11/30 W. C. Clarke, salary 350 32.50 

A. M. Scotland, salary 351 21.66 

Frank Seacrist, salary 352 13.00 

Carl Bologna, salary 353 6.50 

Magdalene Taylor, salary 354 6.50 

Mrs. A. G. Jenkins, salary 355 10.50 

F. M. Patterson, salary 356 32.50 

C. J. C. Grant, salary 357 21.66 

Oliver Welf, salary 358 21.66 

Hugh Alexander, salary 359 32.50 

George Phillip, salary 360 10.84 

Chas. W. Dempster, salary 361 21.66 

Carmi G. Sanford, salary 362 21.66 

N. F. Orkin, salary 363 6.50 

W. H. Keeling, salary 364 65.00 

Dorothy Buss, salary 365 9.20 

Previous Expenditures 

Total Expenditures to Nov. 30, inclusive 

Appropriated to Nov. 30 

Balance in Committee Fund Nov. 30 



County Food Commissioner. 

Date In Favor of — Service 



Voucher No. Amount. 



11/5 Sam Ruple, harvesting buckwheat 219 $ 112.00 

11/10 Letter Specialty Co., multigraphing 228 3.00 

Cleveland Tractor Co., tractor repairs 236 23.12 

Ohio Buick Co., auto repairs 241 5.20 



1,143.93 
3,600.72 

4,744.65 
5,000.00 

255.35 



183 



C, C, C. & St. L. Ry. Co., switching charges.. 249 
Remington Typewriter Co., rental typewriter.. 250 
People's Transfer Co., hauling tractor and plow 259 



2.50 

3.00 

35.00 



11/23 Account sale of farm implements to 

Dr. R. H. Bishop, Jr ? 

Account sale of 5 acres buckwheat. . 

11/26 Check of American Farm Reserve on 

Guardian Savings & Trust Co. 

(money collected by Mr. Inger- 

soll for city hired men which he 

took out to the country) 

11/27 From A. T. Hall, for potatoes which 

he dug himself 

11/30 Sale of seed potatoes — May 25 

Sale of seed potatoes — May 31 

Sale of seed potatoes — June 4 

Sale of seed potatoes — June 4 

Sale of seed potatoes — July 18 

Sale of seed potatoes — October 17.. 

Sale of seed buckwheat — October 5 . . 

Refund of freight charges — Oct. 5 . . 

11/28 Check of Frank C. Newcomer — 90 

bushels of seed potatoes at $3.00 

per bushel 



Credits 



119.00 

25.00 



17.00 

4.00 

2,205.25 

1,846.28 

925.02 

2,093.46 

226.48 

150.00 

22.25 

99.68 



270.00 
$8,003.42— 



183.82 
$ 20,187.47 

$ 20,371.29 

8,003.42 

$ 12,367.87 

25.000.00 

Balance in Committee Fund Nov. 30 $ 12,632.13 



Previous Expenditures 

Total Expenditures to Nov. 30, inclusive. 
Credits for November 



Total to Date 

Appropriated to November 30. 



Executive Committee. 
Date In Favor of— 



Service 



Voucher No. Amount. 



11/10 Burrows Bros. Co., covers 252 $ 18.72 

11/15 Sam B. Anson, salary 288 182.50 

11/30 Sam B. Anson, salary 377 182.50 

Previous Expenditures 

Total Expenditures to Nov. 30, inclusive 



$ 383.72 
$ 1,968.35 

$ 2,352.07 



Food Conservation Committee. 
Date In Favor of — Service 



Voucher No. Amount. 



11/5 Cleveland Co., for prizes in Conservation Menu 

contest 221 $ 50.00 

11/10 The Heiser Co., 4 negatives 248 12.00 

11/15 E. A. Smiley, salary 277 100.00 

Art Engraving & Colortype Co., plates 311 56.00 

The Jewish News, advertising 312 50.00 

"Hlas," Slovak Daily and Weekly, advertising. 313 50.00 

Cleveland News, advertising 314 1,071.56 

Lawrence Publishing Co., electro 315 8.10 

Doyle & Waltz Ptg. Co., folders and envelopes. 316 988.30 

Cleveland News, advertising 317 794.64 

Cleveland Topics Co., advertising 318 46.00 

Harris Printing Co., letterheads and envelopes. 319 4.25 
H. D. North, cash paid Helen Rice, services 

rendered 320 12.00 

Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, postage 321 1.08 

Chamber of Commerce Club, luncheons 322 20.20 

Harris Ptg. & Engr. Co., letterheads and en- 
velopes 323 14.50 

Halter Sign Co., sign 324 32.00 

Ohio News Bureau Co., news service, 10/15 to 

11/15 325 S.OO 

Jewish Review and Observer, advertising 326 73.50 

Stearn Advertising Co., street car advertising. . 327 490.00 

The Jewish Independent, advertising 328 60.00 

The Lakewood Press, advertising 329 38.50 

Roger Williams Press, folders 330 95.00 

Chas. Dehn, hauling 331 6.00 

Thos. Cusack Co., bulletins 333 180.00 



184 



Advertisers' Matrix Co., stereos 334 7.33 

Szabadsag, advertising 335 180.00 

C'ane I ithop;raph Co., posters 337 281.70 

The Bryan Co., sheets 338 1,075.00 

Otis Lithograph Co., posters 339 300.00 

The Cleveland Press, advertising 340 2,343.60 

Fuller & Smith, art work 341 11.48 

The Plain Dealer Pub. Co., advertising 342 1,376.55 

Chagrin Falls Exponent, advertising 343 25.00 

The Jewish World, advertising 344 121.20 

The Romanul Co., advertising 345 150.00 

The Caxton Bldg., etchings 348 246.80 

Postal Telegraph Cable Co., telegrams 346 .60 

V. M. Wellman, cash paid out 347 4.10 

$ 10,381.99 

Previous Expenditures 412.50 

Total Expenditures to November 30, inclusive $ 10,794.49 

Appropriated to November 30 1 5,000.00 

Balance in Committee Fund November 30 $ 4,205.51 

General Office. 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

11/1 Marie R. Snyde, salary 192 $ 8.00 

11/5 Chas. W. Chestnutt, reporting meeting of 10/23 220 20.30 

11/10 Helen G. Wood, indexing minutes 223 10.00 

Cleveland Desk Co., rental, furniture 227 75.00 

Cleveland Directory Co., directory 233 12.00 

Cleveland Company, newspapers 234 45.95 

Stratford Press, letterheads, envelopes and mul- 

tigraph plate 244 70.50 

Republic Electric Co., supplies 245 12.97 

The Heiser Co., prints 248 9.85 

Remington Typewriter Co., rental typewriters.. 250 4.00 

Burrows Bros. Co., supplies 252 17.03 

Forman-Bassett Co., paper 254 8.55 

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., supplies 251 7.45 

H. Korman, newspapers 264 2.30 

11/15 Effa B. Whiting, salary 276 34.50 

Margaret A. Wood, salary 278 25.00 

Raymond Porter, salary 279 37.50 

A. H. Hood, salary 280 62.50 

Hazel Blattner, salary 283 42.50 

Western Union Telegraph Co., telegrams 292 33.72 

11/21 Cash paid in for purchases and telegrams. .$1.08 

11/30 Laura Rankin, salary 380 14.16 

Hazel Blattner, salary 382 42.50 

A. H. Hood, salary 385 62.50 

Margaret A. Wood, salary 386 25.00 

Raymond Porter, salary 387 37.50 

E. B. Whiting, salary 388 32.50 

$ 753.78 

Credit 1.08 

$ 752.70 

Previous Expenditures > 3,901.31 

Total Expenditures to November 30, inclusive $ 4,654.01 

Military Committee. 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

11/5 Capt. H. P. Shupe, contribution on behalf of 
Mayor's Advisory War Committee toward 
regimental fund of 166th Infantry stationed 

Hempstead, L. 1 213 500.00 

John Fairfax, music, Oct. 27, at Grays' Armory 

for colored selective service men 214 34.00 

J. A. Jackson, band furnished colored selective 

service men, Oct. 27 215 76.00 

Jackson's Military Band, band furnished Oct. 12 216 64.00 
11/8 Credit: Big Four R. R., reimbursement for 

ticket not used by Capt. Mudge $2.75 

11/10 L. E. Whitworth, trip, Cleveland to Chillicothe. 225 10.00 

J. C. Beardsley, banner 226 2.25 

J. J. Metzger, trip, Cleveland to Chillicothe and 

return .■•.•229 7.50 

Capt. H. P. Shupe, 5 trips, Cleveland to Chilli- 
cothe; trip to Rainbow Div., Mineola, N. Y. 230 112.40 

East Ohio Gas Co., labor and material 237 105.02 

185 



Cleveland Grays' Co., expense at supper given 

to colored draft men in Armory Oct. 27. . . . 238 81.00 

Wagner Mfg. Co., flags 256 37.50 

J. J. Metzger Sign Co., banners 260 34.65 

11/15 Frank B. Hollenbach, trip, Cleve. to Chillicothe 336 3. 75 

11/23 Duplicate voucher No. 122 for cartage done 
by George J. Mesker, paid by voucher 

No. 67 $4.50 

Total credits 7.25 

$ 1,068.07 

Previous Expenditures 6,097.06 

Total Expenditures to Nov. 30, inclusive $ 7,157.88 

Appropriated to November 30 9,264.50 

Balance in Committee Fund November 30 $ 2,106.62 



Patriotism Committee. 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

11/10 Cleveland Tel. Co., L. D. calls and telegrams.. 231 $ 1.83 

Hiles & Coggshall, etching 246 8.75 

The Heiser Co., prints 248 4.00 

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., cards 251 1.50 

The Burrows Bros. Co., 2 maps 252 2.00 

11 /IS Laura Rankin, salary 285 21.25 

J. C. Marks, salary 286 50.00 

Western Union Telegraph, telegrams 292 6.28 

11 /30 J. C. Marks, salary 379 50.00 

Laura Rankin, salary 380 14.17 

Previous Expenditures 

Total Expenditures to Nov. 30 

Appropriated to November 30 



159.78 
440.22 



600.00 
300.00 



Provost-Marshal-General. 

Date In favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

Credits 

11/1 Katherine McCallig, salary 196 $42.00 

Eleanor Friedman, salary 197 72.00 

11/15 Eleanor Friedman, salary 310 36.00 

Katherine McCallig, salary 309 42.00 

11/23 Refund from Provost Marshal $312.00 

11/30 Eleanor Friedman, salary 391 72.00 

Katherine McCallig, salary 392 84.00 

Refund from Provost Marshal 42.00 

Refund from Provost Marshal 36.00 

$390.00 $348.00 
Previous Expenditures 198.00 

Total Expenditures to November 30, inclusive $446.00 

Credits for November 390.00 

Total to Date $156.00 

Appropriated to November 30 400.00 

Balance in Committee Fund November 30 $244.00 

Publicity Committee. 

Date In favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

11/10 Cleveland News, newspapers 235 $ 4.00 

Previous Expenditures 1,381.02 

Total Expenditures to November 30, inclusive $1,385.02 



IV ar Garden Committee. 

Date In favor of — Service Voucher No. 

11/10 Eclipse Electro. & Engr. Co., plate 239 

Heiser Co., prints 248 

A. S. Gilman Printing Co., printing 255 

11 /15 D. C. Rudolph, drawing 269 

C. F. Knirk, salary 287 

11 /21 Account sale of fertilizer 

Account sale of fertilizer 

11/30 C. F. Knirk, salary 378 



Credit! 



$ 70.00 
74.00 



Amount 

$ 11.67 

2.10 

15.00 

2.00 

75.00 



75.00 



186 



11/27 Account sale of fertilizer 109.00 

11/30 Account sale of fertilizer 29.00 



$282.00 $ 180.77 
Previous Expenditures 3,966.30 



Total Expenditures to November 30, inclusive $4,147.07 

Credits for November 282.00 



Total to Date $3,865.07 

Appropriated to November 30 10,000.00 



Balance in Committee Fund November 30 $6,134.93 

Women's Committee. 

Date In favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

Credits 

11/10 Cleveland Telephone Co., long distance calls and tel. 231 $ 3.55 

Central Com. on Public Health Nursing, advert'g. . 232 27.38 

Cleveland News Co., display 235 17.36 

Hiles & Coggshall, booklets, plates, etc 246 18.32 

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., supplies 251 11.46 

Burrows Bros. Co., cards 232 1.25 

Excelsior Stamp Works Co., 1 signature stamp.... 253 3.00 

Wagner Mfg. Co., rent of flags 256 10.00 

11/15 Joseph Dular, salary 270 20.00 

Ida E. Schott, salary 271 80.00 

G. A. Wolfe, salary 282 62.50 

Anna Connors, salary 289 42.50 

Western Union Telegraph Co., telegrams 292 6.60 

11/21 Part proceds of lecture $ 30.50 

Account lecture 40.00 

Cash paid by Miss Sherwin for telegrams 1.85 

11 /30 Anna Connors, salary 376 42.50 

G. A. Wolfe, salary 383 62.50 



$ 72.35 $ 408.92 

Previous Expenditures 1,340.37 

Total Expenditures to November 30, inclusive $ 1,749.29 

Credits for November 72.3 5 

Total to Date $ 1,676.94 

Appropriated to November 30 14,600.00 



Balance in Committee Fund November 30 $12,923.06 



187 



STATEMENT OF MAYOR'S ADVISORY WAR COMMITTEE 
as of December 1st, 1917 



Expenditures : 



Month of 

November 



Executive $ 383.72 

War Garden 180.77 

General Office 1,461.56 

Publicity 386.50 

County Food Com 183.82 

Military Committee 1,428.56 

Women's Committee 408.92 

County Draft Board 1,169.44 

American Protective League 604.03 

Americanization Committee 1,300.24 

Cuyahoga Co. Food Consv. Camp. Com 10,381.99 

Bills Payable 

Total 

Receipts: 
Total previous receipts 

Nov. 21 Proceeds of lecture (Women's Com $ 30.50 

Sale of Farm Implements (Co. Fd. Com.) 119.00 

Sale of buckwheat (Co. Fd. Com.) 25.00 

Sale of fertilizer (War Garden) 70.00 

Telegram (reimbursement) (Worn. Com.) 1.85 

Miscellaneous (General Office) 1.08 

Refund from Provost Marshal (Gen. Ofc.) 312.00 

Tickets returned (Military Com.) 2.75 

Nov. 23 Proceeds of lecture (Women's Com.).... 40.00 

Sale of fertilizer (War Garden) 74.00 

Rec'd from L. B. Dunham (Co. Fd. Com.) 17.00 

Nov. 28 Interest for November 

Total Receipts 

Total Expense 

Balance on hand Dec. 1 

Checks outstanding 

Deposits made Dec. 5 

Balance in bank 



Total 
to Dec. 1 

$ 2,352.07 

4,147.07 

6,525.36 

1,385.02 

20,371.29 

7,160.63 

1,749.29 

4,744.65 

1,776.32 

5,899.94 

10,794.49 

20,258.64 

$87,164.77 



$130,491.10 



; 693.18 

89.66 


782.84 




$131,273.94 
87,164.77 




$ 44,109.17 




1,178.23 
613.60 




$ 45,901.00 


F. H. 


GOFF, 


1 


',y L. E. Oakley. 



188 



Meeting of the Executive Committee 
December 7, 1917 

A meeting of the Executive Committee was held in the Mayor's office 
on Friday, December 7, at 4 P. M. 

Present : Mayor Davis, and Messrs. Feiss, Greenlund and Mooney. 
In the absence of Chairman Herrick, Mr. Mooney presided. 

The Executive Secretary presented the following communication from 
Bartholomew, Leeper & McGill, attorneys for the Legal Aid Society : 

"From time to time during the past summer many people have 
called at onr office with problems involving the rights of so-called 
'war gardens' to the possession of vacant lots for the gardening and 
harvesting season, which lots they were given permission to plant. 
We probably have had in the neighborhood of fiftj' or sixty such cases. 
We briefed the law on this question early in the summer, but found 
no decision which clearly indicated the rights of such 'war gardeners.' 
We have, therefore, been waiting to secure the right kind of a case 
before going into court to have the matter definitely determined by 
our superior courts. We now have such a case pending in the Munici- 
pal Court, being No. 80415, Cain vs. Hearn. 

"Our client is a very poor man, and cannot afford to pay the 
costs. The case will undoubtedly go to the Supreme Court if we can 
secure the necessary court costs to carry the case up. The facts are 
typical of the war garden cases, and are as follows: Cain, for a 
valid consideration, was permitted to plant a war garden, which cost 
him much money, and whi'-h was worth at the time it was destroyed 
about $250. The lot was sold, and the purchaser entered the prem- 
ises and destroyed the garden. 

"Our client has deposited $5 for a jury trial, but this is as much 
as he can raise. We are willing to devote our time to fighting the 
case through to final decision, but we feel that those interested in 
the war garden situation should be willing to advance the necessary 
court costs. This would include one half of the expenses of a court 
stenographer, the printing of briefs, etc. 

"It is rather difficult to estimate the exact amount. We would 
greatly appreciate your offer to pay the necessary costs, or if you pre- 
fer to make a definite contribution, it will be very acceptable." 

It was decided, on motion of Mr. Feiss, seconded by Mayor Davis, 
to set aside the sum of $100 for the purpose of defraying the expense of 
taking this or other cases through the courts in an effort to establish the 
legal precedent sought. The Executive Secretary was instructed to dis- 
burse this money only on presentation of approved vouchers by the repre- 
sentatives of the Legal Aid Society. 

The Executive Secretary presented the following letter, signed jointly 
by E. D. Keenan, Ensign U. S. Navy, detailed to recruiting duty in Cleve- 
land, and C. R. Hope, Lieutenant U. S. N. R. F. : 

"In order to place Cleveland on a parity with the other large 
cities of the country that have been visited by the Great Lakes Band, 
under the direction of John Phillips Sousa, now a lieutenant in the 
U. S. Naval Reserve, it is suggested that the commandant of the 
Great Lakes Training Station be requested to send the band to Cleve- 
land for a week. 

"In addition to the public interest in and pleasure derived from 
a visit of the band to this city, interest in the L". S. Navy would be 
greatly increased with a consequent larger number of enlistments. 

"The officer in charge of the Navy Recruiting Station here has al- 
ready written the commandant, asking if it were practicable for the 
band to visit Cleveland, but it is believed that if there were a popular 
demand therefor, the chances of a favorable decision would be greatly 
enhanced." 

Captain H. P. Shupe, chairman of the Sub-Committee on Military 
Affairs, was present at the meeting and stated that a similar communica- 
tion had been presented at the meeting, a few hours before, of that Sub- 
Committee at the Chamber of Comm.erce, and that the Sub-Committee had 
decided to refer the proposition to the Executive Committee before taking 
action, with a view toward learning the Executive Committee's attitude 
toward the process of bringing Sousa's Band to Cleveland. 

In the discussion that followed, the question was raised as to whether 
the persons interested in bringing Sousa to Cleveland had made any plans 

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for defraying the expense that might arise for transportation, subsistence, 
and billeting the band, which numbers 350 men at its full strength. The 
Executive Secretary said that the impression he had gained from Mr. Hope 
led him to believe that Mr. Hope and his associates had given this feature 
of the project thought and were hoping that the only expense they would 
have to arrange for would be that of billeting the men, it being their 
expectation that the Bureau of Navigation could be induced to bear the 
expense of transportation and rationing. The Executive Secretary also 
stated that it was at least his impression that it was not the intention of 
Messrs. Hope and Keenan to induce the Mayor's Advisory War Committee 
to write such an invitation at this time with the hope of so commit- 
ting the committee to the project that it could later, in view of an accept- 
ance from the Navy Department of an invitation to send Sousa's Band 
here, argue that the Committee should defray or help defray any expense 
that might arise. This detail, he understood, was to be considered sepa- 
rately, he said. 

On motion of Mr. Feiss, seconded by Mayor Davis, the ma.tter was 
re-referred to the Sub-Committee on Military affairs, with instructions 
to make due inquiry into this phase of the situation and take the action 
it sees fit. 

The following communication from Mrs. C. A. Hamann and Mrs. 
John W. Raper was read : 

"We are anxious to have the endorsement of your committee for 
Sister M. Ignatius O'Kavanagh, who is to lecture at the Hotel Statler 
Friday evening, December 14th, at 8 o'clock. Sister O'Kavanagh 
was sent here by Cardinal Mercier in the interests of the destitute 
women and children of Louvain. She has credentials from Cardinal 
Mercier, Cardinal Farley, of New York, and Bishop Farrelly of 
Cleveland. 

"Sister O'Kavanagh has also the endorsements of the Chambers of 
Commerce of the different cities where she has appeared. 

"The lecture is free to the public. A voluntary collection \\U\ 
be taken." 

The Executive Secretary stated that the usual procedure had been 
followed with this application, in that the application had been sent to 
Mr. Perry W. Harvey, secretary of the Sub-Committee on Endorsement, 
and that Mr. Harvey had reported favorably. He explained that the only 
reason he was bringing it to the attention of the Executive Committee 
was that the ladies sought the action also of the Executive Committee for 
the sake of the greater effect they thought such additional endorsement 
would have. Mr. Mooney advised that the application be re-referred for 
further investigation to Mr. Harvey, in spite of his having already endorsed 
it, pointing out that the ecclesiastical authorities of Cleveland are now 
making an investigation of reports that Sister O'Kavanagh's credentials 
from Cardinal Mercier and Cardinal Farley have been subjected to ques- 
tion. On motion of Mr. Feiss, seconded by Mr. Greenlund, the matter was 
so re-referred. 

At the same time, it was the expression of the meeting that publicity 
should be given by the newspapers to a warning to the community at large 
against the giving of funds to so-called soldiers' and sailors' war benefit 
propositions that do not bear the endorsement of the Mayor's Advisory 
War Committee. Mr. Feiss announced at this juncture that the Executive 
Secretary is busy in making an inventory of the various varieties of war 
work being done by all organizations in Cleveland, and just as soon as tliat 
data is collected, it will be classified and charted in such a form as to give 
the city at large a comprehensive grasp of the whole situation. 

Captain Shupe then entered into a verbal report of the result of his 
recent trip to Camp Sheridan at Montgomery to look into conditions there 
affecting the welfare of Cleveland soldiers stationed at that camp. 

He sketched briefly his activities there and his conclusions after a 
week of such effort. In substance, he reported that the morale and mili- 
tary progress of the men were wonderful, in spite of the several adverse 
conditions that he found, namely; 

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The absolute lack of any provision in the camp for the comfort of 
mothers or other women relatives or friends of soldiers who go as 
visitors to Montgomery. He said that there is absolutely no provision 
for women's rest rooms in the Y. M. C. A. buildings in the camp and 
that under the strict orders of Major General Smith, who has until 
recently been in charge of the division, everything had been done 
toward discouraging rather than encouraging visits of women to the 
camp. He stated that practically the only opportunity a soldier has 
of visiting with his women folks is when some officer is kind enough 
to permit the soldier to go with her to the officer's quarters and there 
visit with her briefly. Captain Shupe pointed out that the natural 
effect of such an arrangement was to embarrass both the soldier and 
his visitor because of the natural restraint that existed. He also cited 
the fact that there is not one other place in the camp where a woman 
visitor can find even any makeshift provision made for her to sit and 
rest while on such a visit. He was able to announce, however, that 
Major General Treat, who on his recent return from France has reas- 
sumed command of the division, has promised to have this condition 
rectified by securing the immediate construction of three buildings 
originally planned for this purpose, but somehow overlooked to date. 

A misinterpretation of orders that existed until the time of 
Captain Shupe's visit resulted in much annoyance and loss of sleep on 
the part of the men. The order, which was aimed to prevent the un- 
sanitary practice of men sleeping in underwear they had worn during 
the day, was that at least four inspections of sleeping quarters 
should be made each night. These orders were interpreted as meaning 
thatmen should be routed out of bed and made to prove to the satis- 
faction of the inspection officer that the underwear he happened to 
have on had not been worn during the previous day. Captain Shupe 
reported that through his influence a supplementary order was sent 
out which made it plain to all officers that inspection could be made 
without disturbing the rest of the men involved. 

The hospital at the camp is, in his judgment, inadequate, in- 
efficient and unsanitary. He reported that there is no running water, 
hot or cold, within several hundred feet of the hospital; that there are 
no women nurses and the work is therefore delegated to orderlies 
detailed from the ranks; that patients are put into beds having soiled 
linens and he heard other complaints that linen is very infrequently 
changed; that the operating room is unheated; that the diet of con- 
valescents has been so mismanaged that sometimes orderlies have 
given convalescents food that is absoultely dangerous, and so on. He 
cited the case of Lieutenant Parks of Cleveland who was given a plate 
of pork and beans by an unthinking orderly at a time he was re- 
covering from typhoid fever. Lieutenant Parks died within the next 
twenty-four hours. 

Proper heating and bathing facilities are lacking. Because none 
but cold water is obtainable in the camp, many of the men who can 
afford it are in the habit of going to Montgomery and patronizing 
the bath rooms maintained by the hotels and elsewhere in order to 
obey the order that they shall take at least two baths weekly. While 
perfectly good stoves for heating water are lying at the end of each 
company street, nothing has ever been done toward setting them up 
and connecting them. This also Major-General Treat has promised 
to take care of at once. 

Dissatisfaction exists because of the apparent featuring of Camp 
Sherman news by the newspapers in preference to news from Camp 
Sheridan. This situation. Captain Shupe said, was expected to be 
corrected by the establishing of a publicity department charged 
with communicating with the newspapers at home all happenings of 
any sort that have any particular news value. 

The hospital situation. Captain Shupe made plain, was the most 
serious of all. He accompanied Major-General Treat from Montgom- 
ery to Columbus on his way home and took occasion to present the 
facts concerning the hospital to him at that time. Major-General 
Treat said that he had not been aware of the situation, which has 
developed largely during his absence in France and that he would 
imrnediately take steps to put the Camp Sheridan hospital on the same 
basis of efficiency and comfort that obtains in the base hospital at 
Camp Sherman. Captain Shupe said that Major-General Treat asked 
the forbearance and indulgence of Cleveland and other communities 
at least pending the outcome of his immediate efforts to correct the 
situation. Major-General Treat also urged against newspaper ex- 
ploitation or criticism of the situation at this time. 

Captain Shupe also reported that he felt that he has been largely 
responsible for Major-General Treat's decision, announced Friday 
morning, to give a ten-day Christmas furlough to all boys who 
could produce a first class ticket home. 

Captain Shupe made the following recommendations : 

1. That the Committee purchase 2,000 suits of pajamas at once 
and send them to the division headquarters at Camp Sheridan for 
distribution. He explained that altogether there are 4,000 Cleveland 

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boys, but at least half of them have their own pajamas. The 
remaining 2,000 are boys who have not funds with which to buy them. 
He explained that it was the idea of the officers at Camp Sheridan 
that it would be unwise to send the men more than one suit of 
pajamas, because they should be expected to buy a second suit them- 
selves. He pointed out that because of the cold damp nights and 
the sanitary regulation against sleeping in one's underwear, pajamas 
are a crying need in the camps. 

2. An appropriation of $1,000 for Col. Hall, medical officer now 
in charge of the hospital, who seeks this sum for the sake of making 
bacteriological investigations with the hope of making the local milk 
supply, now contaminated with typhoid and other germs, fit to serve 
to patients. Under present conditions, only condensed milk is issued 
to hospital patients, because the fresh milk supply is so impure as 
to make it dangerous to use. 

3. A $500 appropriation for the division's publicity bureau. 

With reference to the last two items, however, Capt. Shupe asked that 
the committee defer action until he had further word from Colonel Hall 
and the others. He explained also that it was his idea that Cleveland 
should stand no more than 25% of any such expense, because he felt that 
we should do no more proportionately than we have men at the camp. 

In the discussion that followed the proposal to send 2,000 suits of 
pajamas to Camp Sheridan, the point was made that if the committee sends 
pajamas to Camp Sheridan it will be called upon to send pajamas to other 
camps wherever Cleveland soldiers may be stationed. Camp Sherman was 
spoken of particularly in this connection. Mayor Davis remarked that 
the Committee could very well include Camp Sherman, and it seemed the 
sense of the meeting that pajamas should be sent to all other camps quar- 
tering Cleveland men that made the need of them apparent. 

On motion of Mayor Davis, seconded by Mr. Feiss, the committee was 
authorized to proceed at once to send 2,000 suits of pajamas to Camp 
Sheridan. Mr. Feiss was made a committee of one to superintend the 
manufacture and shipment of these pajamas. The Executive Secretary, 
at the same time, was instructed to issue an appeal through the newspapers 
to women to donate, in addition, home-made pajamas for this use, and to 
urge friends and relatives of soldiers who were in doubt as to an appro- 
priate Christmas gift to send to camps, that they should send pajamas. 

On motion of Mr. Greenlund, seconded by Mr. Feiss, Captain Shupe 
was instructed to make a similar trip of investigation to Camp Pike, Little 
Rock, Ark., where a large number of Cleveland selective service men have 
been transferred from Camp Sherman, providing he confirms, on investi- 
gation, the impression of the Executive Secretary and others that there 
are a large number of such Cleveland men now at that camp. 

The Executive Secretary submitted the following report, which was 
approved : 

I have to report that Sam Ruple, the North Olmsted farmer 
with whom we arranged to thresh and market our buckwheat on the 
Dellenbaugh farm, got around to the point of threshing last Saturday. 
Our Mr. Hood was present throughout the entire operation and he " 
vouches for Ruple's statement that the threshing resulted in 425 
bushels of buckwheat. 

Mr. Knirk reports that buckwheat is commanding around $3.50 
per cwt. in Cleveland and Grafton, the two markets nearest to 
Ruple, which is around $1.75 per bushel. Upon his recommendation, 
I have written Ruple, proposing that he send us his check for $375, 
and do as he pleases with the buckwheat. Under our arrangement 
with Ruple, we were to receive 50 per cent of the gross proceeds, 
he to bear all expense of threshing and marketing. 

If Ruple accepts this proposition, the committee's share will be 
$125 less than Mr. Knirk's original estimate of $500, made at the 
time when both he and I were led to believe that Ruple had reaped 
and bound the full 35 acres of buckwheat on the Dellenbaugh farm. 
It seems, however, that Ruple reaped only 25 acres and Mr. Hood 
vouches for his statement that the remaining ten acres was planted 
in such low ground that he (Ruple) has been unable to get onto it 
to work with his binder. Consequently, these ten acres are a total 
loss. 

The second tractor has been moved into my barn and the third 
tractor will be put there within the next week, the Cleveland Tractor 
Company having decided that it no longer can spare the room it takes 
in its plant. I have arranged for Fhort term fire insurance on the 
tractors and other equipment in the barn. 

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Thus far, my search for other property of this committe has 
resulted only in my uncovering two twelve-foot tents, which Mr. 
Dunham bought during the summer. Those are also in my barn. 

The next order of business was the further consideration of the appli- 
cation of Mr. J. Wayne Hart, Chairman of the Cuyahoga County Federa- 
tion, Federal Food Control Commission, for funds with which to finance 
the activities of his organization, which had been presented originally at 
the previous meeting. The Executive Secretary submitted the following 
report : 

"Pursuant to your instructions, I conferred with Miss Sherwin, 
Chairman of the Women's sub-committee, Mr. North, Chairman of our 
Committee on Food Administration, and Mr. Hart, Chairman of the 
Cuyahoga County Administration Federal Food Control Commission, 
Tuesday afternoon. 

"We went thoroughly into the subject of possible duplication 
and reached a complete understanding. Incidentally we demonstrated 
to Mr. Morth the need of his continuing as Chairman of our Com- 
mittee on Food Administration and I imagine at the next meeting, 
which he promised to try to attend, he will withdraw his letter of 
resignation as such presented to the last meeting. 

"In our conference yesterday my suspicion that Mr. Hart's 
Food Control Commission is embarking on a work which soon will 
develop into one of our largest activities was confirmed. 

"Mr. Hart's commission is charged by the State with the respon- 
sibility for the active policing and enforcement of all the regulatory 
measures of the State Food Administrator who in turn gets his 
orders from Food Administrator Hoover at Washington. Mr. Hart's 
commission will have to do with the investigation and suppression of 
profiteering; with the dictation and enforcement of government fixed 
prices; with the enforcement of government limited quantities, and 
the enforcement of the meatless, wheatless and sweetless programs laid 
down by Washington. 

"Mr. North, if he continues as Chairman of our committee on 
Food Administration, will, in addition to the activity demanded of 
him by reason of his being a member likewise of Mr. Hart's com- 
mission, be called upon to attend to numerous details of conservation 
work. It seems that the authorities at Columbus have declined to con- 
sider that Mr. North's work personally was completed when the Food 
Drive week ended on November 4th and have notified him that his 
Conservation group is to be continued indefinitely. Since November 
4th so much work of this kind has come into his hands that he has 
been forced to employ at his own expense, at least one stenographer 
at all times to handle the stenographic work in connection there- 
\yith. He says he has received considerable other help from Mr. 
Smiley as a volunteer. 

_ "I explained to Mr. North and Mr. Hart the arrangement under 
which our other activities maintained their headquarters and do 
their office work here in our general headquarters and I think that 
I made them understand that while it is not the committee's idea 
to hamper Mr. Hart's commission's work in any respect by asking 
that it become amenable to our scheme and rules of organization, 
it feels it has the right, if it is going to finance the commission, to 
thus keep a check on its activities, expenditures, etc., and to co-ordi- 
nate its efforts with those of our existing sub-committees. I think 
also that I convinced Mr. North and Mr. Hart that they do not need 
both a paid secretary and a paid publicity agent. I did agree entirely 
with Mr. North's suggestion that the commission, in the event of its 
being financed by us, select a man for secretary who is not only able 
to combine the commission's administrative secretarial work with 
Mr. North's conservation secretarial work, but also publicity for both. 
A newspaper man would be the logical selection for such a secretary- 
ship and to secure a secretary of such qualifications we obviously 
would have to pay him more than the $1,200 asked for Mr. Spencer 
who is now volunteering his services as secretary of the commission. 
"Such a secretary could be obtained, I feel confident, at a salary 
not to exceed $2,200 a year. Mr. North would like to see Mr. Smiley 
made this secretary providing Mr. Smiley would agree to devote all 
his time to the work and relinquish his publicity work for the Cham- 
ber of Commerce and the Red Cross. Mr. Smiley would be entirely 
acceptable to me on such a basis, but I gather from my knowledge 
of the situation and a conversation I had with him that $2,200 would 
not appeal to him, and that probably the lowest figure at which he 
could be induced to take this position would be around $3,000. How- 
ever, I think I know of several other newspaper men from whom we 
could choose a capable secretary at the $2,200 figure. 

"1 recommend then that we appropriate $2,200 to Mr. North's 
commission. I think a theoretical appropriation of $1,000 will see 
the commission through the better part of the year if it develops 
that we will have to supply clerical or stenographic help in addition 

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to the existing force. I anticipate that this situation will present 
itself within a few weeks after the commission gets thoroughly or- 
ganized and fully at work — if the indications of the work it is 
going to be called upon to do are worth anything. 

"I would recommend also, in case Mr. North sees fit to ask us 
to reimburse him for the money he has spent in Food Conservation 
work since November 4th, that I be authorized to make such payments 
out of the balance remaining in the original $15,000 appropriation 
given him for the expenses of his Food Drive Week. As you know, 
I recently notified Mr. North that I felt I had no authority to make 
disbursements from this fund for other than expenses actually con- 
tracted during or for this Food Conservation week. 

"In conclusion, I think we should change the name of Mr. 
North's committee, as he suggests, to some other title that will be 
less apt to confuse in our own minds, as well as the public's, the par- 
ticular and separate functions that exist for it. Miss Sherwin and I 
found in our conference with Mr. Hart and Mr. North yesterday that 
a lot of the confusion existing in our own minds was traceable 
directly to the style of nomenclature of Mr. North's committee." 

After discussion, it was decided to instruct the Executive Secretary 
to issue a call for a conference the following Monday afternoon between 
Fred C. Croxton, State Food Administrator, Mr. Hart, Mr. North, Chair- 
man of the Sub-Committee on Food Administration; Mr. Klumph, of the 
American Protective League ; Mr. DeWoody, U. S. Department of Investi- 
gation ; Mr. Feiss as Chairman of the Committee on Organization ; Miss 
Sherwin, of the Women's Sub-Committee ; Health Commissioner Bishop, 
and himself, for the purpose of arranging for a proper co-ordination of all 
these activities before final consideration is given Mr. Hart's request 
for an appropriation. 

The meeting adjourned at 5:50 P. M. 

SAM B. ANSON, 
Executive Secretary. 



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Minutes of the Executive Committee 
December 14, 1917 

A meeting- of the Executive Committee was held December 14th, 1917, 
at 4 p. m., in the Mayor's office. 

Present : Mayor Davis and Messrs. Adams, Feiss and Greenlund. 
Mr. Adams, in the absence of Chairman Herrick, presided. 

Reading of the minutes of the previous meeting was dispensed with. 

The Executive Secretary reported that since the previous meeting the 
application for the endorsement of the lecture of Sister M. Ignatius O'Kav- 
anagh, of Belgium, in the interest of the destitute women and children of 
Louvain, had been granted on recommendation of Mr. Harvey, Secretary 
of the Sub-Committee on Endorsement, who advised that the ecclesiastical 
authorities had reported to him through Mr. Mooney, that all doubt sur- 
rounding Sister O'Kavanagh's credentials had been cleared away by care- 
ful investigation. 

Mr. Feiss, who was authorized as a committee of one to purchase and 
immediately deliver to the division commander at Camp Sheridan 2,000 
suits of pajamas for the Cleveland soldiers there, reported that through 
his New York connections he had placed such an order with Steiner & 
Son, Asbury Park, New Jersey, and that according to advices from them, 
the pajamas were shipped last Wednesday and Thursday by prepaid 
express direct to Maj. Gen. Treat. The pajamas, he reported, are of the 
style desired by the military authorities, are made of flannelette, and were 
purchased at a price of $19.50 per dozen, less 2 per cent for cash. Mr. 
Feiss pointed out that while these pajamas cost the committee $19.50 per 
dozen, they were in reality pajamas that sold regularly at wholesale from 
$19.50 up to $24.00 a dozen. The Executive Secretary also reported in this 
connection that he had properly advised Maj. Gen. Treat of the shipment 
and of the committee's desire to have him distribute the pajamas in the 
name of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee in such manner as he felt 
would best supply such needs of Cleveland soldiers at Camp Sheridan. 

Mr. Feiss reported the outcome of the conference held on Tuesday 
last, between the County Food Administration Committee, the American 
Protective League, the United States Department of Investigation, and 
our sub-committees on Women's Activities and Conservation, at which 
meeting, Fred C. Croxton, state food administrator, was also present. Mr. 
Feiss explained that the purpose of the conference was to secure a proper 
working co-ordination of all of the agencies that would contribute to the 
success of the County Food Administration in the work laid out for it 
by the United States Food Administration, and outlined the results ob- 
tained in such direction at that conference. He reported that Health 
Commissioner Bishop had been made a member of the commission, and 
that City Chemist White had been chosen secretary and as such had 
already taken hold of the work, transferring headquarters from the New 
Court House to City Hall. He also outlined to an extent plans contem- 
plated for the co-ordination particularly of the food administration with 
Dr. Bishop's already well-organized food and dairy inspection service. 
He stated that he had m.ade it plain to Mr. Croxton and the others present 
that if the Mayor's Advisory War Committee is to finance the work of 
the County Food Administration it must needs have an adequate check 
on its expenditures and have adequate information as to what the money 
is being spent for. 

In the discussion that followed, it seemed to be the general sentiment 
that no further action be taken at this time on the original request of J. 
Wayne Hart, chairman of the County Food Administration for $6,000, and 
that nothing should be done in that direction until Mr. White presented 
to the committee not only a careful estimate of the money that will be 
needed, but satisfactory evidence that if the committee is to make such 
an appropriation it will have the adequate check on expenditures that is 
desired. 

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The Executive Secretary reported that Mr. White is temporarily open- 
ing headquarters in room 412 City Hall, and that it might be wise to 
authorize toward the paying of immediate expenses and any minor ex- 
penses that Mr. White might have to contract in the interval elapsing 
before the committee takes definite and final action toward the proposition 
of financing the administration, a sum not to exceed $75. 

The Executive Secretary was so authorized on motion of Mr. Adams. 

Mr. Feiss then presented the question of the advisability of having 
some firm of public accountants of reputation make an audit of the com- 
mittee's financial accounts as of December 31, 1917, and at the end of 
each month thereafter. The Executive Secretary reported in this con- 
nection that he had been instructed by Mr. Goff, through Miss Oakley, to 
open a new set of books, and that such work is now in progress, he having 
obtained the services of an accountant who is at work on such books 
evenings. On motion of Mr. Adams the Executive Secretary and Mr. 
Hayden were instructed to take up with Mr. Goff the possibility of having 
such audits made by the auditor of the Cleveland Trust Company. 

The meeting adjourned at 5 p. m. 

SAM B. ANSON, 

Executive Secretary. 

REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE TO DATE 
(Read at Executive Committee Meeting, December 14, 1917) 

Previous Distributions: 

( 1) Executive Committee $ 2,352.07 

( 2) War Garden Committee 4,147.07 

(3) General Office 6,525.36 

(4) Publicity Committee 1,775.52 

( 5) County Food Commissioner 20,371.29 

(6) Military Committee 6,800.14 

(7) Women's Committee 1,749.29 

( 8) Americanization 5,899.94 

(9) County Draft Board 4,719.14 

(10) A. P. L 1,776.32 

(11) Food Conservation Committee 10,794.49 

Bills Payable 20,258.64 



$ 87,169.27 



Distribution of December 10, 1917 



cher No. 


In Favor of — Account 


;Cbai 


417 


Doyle & Waltz Ptg. Co. 


(2) 


421 


Hiles & Coggshall 


(2) 


423 


Yawman & Erbe 


(2) 


424 


Burrows Bros. Co. 


(2) 


393 


H. Korman 


(3) 


397 


Kluger Optical Co. 


(3) 


413 


Harris Ptg. & Eng. Co. 


(3) 


414 


Excelsior Stamp Works 


(3) 


419 


Remington Type. Co. 


(3) 


420 


Stratford Press 


(3) 


421 


Hiles & Coggshall 


(3) 


422 


Erner Electric Co. 


(3) 


423 


Yawman & Erbe 


(3) 


424 


Burrows Bros. Co. 


(3) 


426 


M. Edelstein 


(3) 


427 


Plain Dealer Pub. Co. 


(3) 


404 


Roy Ramson 


(5) 


410 


People's Transfer Co. 


(5) 


411 


Cleveland Press 


(6) 


412 


Cleveland News 


(6) 


427 


Plain Dealer Pub. Co. 


(6) 


394 


East Ohio Gas Co. 


(6) 


405 


Troop A Riding Academy 


(6) 


408 


Col. D. H. Pond 


(6) 


395 


Superior Advt. Co. 


(7) 


402 


P. A. McHugh 


(7) 


411 


Cleveland Press 


(7) 


412 


Cleveland News 


(7) 


415 


Chas. W. Chesnutt 


(7) 



627.40 

2.50 

6.88 

.40 

1.60 

.50 

8.50 

1.80 

3.00 

179.25 

37.50 

9.60 

2.30 

2.05 

4.92 

1.80 

28.50 

56.05 

12.83 

2.70 

31.50 

16.03 

8.00 

32.50 

3.00 

5.00 

19.32 

22.33 

35.00 



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416 Halter Sign Co. 
421 Hiles & Coggshall 
423 Yawman & Erbe Co. 

427 Plain Dealer Pub. Co. 
407 Union Paper & Twine 
419 Remington Type. Co. 

421 Hiles & Coggshall 
396 Western News. Union 
406 L. C. Smith Type. Co. 
418 Cleveland Desk Co. 
42S The Brooks Co. 

422 Erner Electric Co. 

428 Cuyahoga Lumber Co. 

398 The Heiser Co. 

399 The Britton Ptg. Co. 

400 Catholic Universe Pub. 

Co. 

401 Italian Pub. Co. 
403 H. D. North 
409 Fuller & Smith 

413 Harris Ptg. & Eng. Co. 

417 Doyle & Waltz Ptg. Co. 



(7) 


10.00 


(7) 


4.40 


(7) 


3.83 


(7) 


33.60 


(8) 


7.70 


(8) 


s.oo 


(8) 


3.75 


(10) 


19.00 


(10) 


3.00 


(10) 


5.80 


(10) 


166.40 


(10) 


18.08 


(10) 


31.00 


(11) 


16.20 


(11) 


15.95 


(11) 


119.20 


(11) 


70.00 


(11) 


1.03 


(11) 


73.37 


(11) 


9.75 


(11) 


23.19 




* 1 oni ni 







Total Distributions to Date $ 88,972.28 

Audited December 7, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commissioner 
of Accounts. 



197 



MEMORANDUM 

On Monday, December 17th, Mayor Davis requested the Executive 
Secretary to make a telephone canvass of the members of the Mayor's 
Advisory War Committee, to obtain their approval of the Executive 
Secretary's going to Camp Sheridan at Montgomery, Alabama, as the 
representative of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee, in the semi- 
official Christmas celebration planned for the Cleveland men there. Such 
a canvass was made and the following members gave their approval : 
Mayor Davis and Messrs. Hayden, Mooney, Feiss, Adams and Greenlund. 



198 



Meeting of the Executive Committee 
December 21, 1917 

A meeting of the Executive Committee was held in the Mayor's office 
on Friday, December 21, 1917, at 3 :30 p. m. 

Present — Mayor Davis and Messrs. Adams, Feiss, Goff, Greenlund, 
Hayden, Herrick, Mooney, Otis and Squire. 

Reading of the minutes of the preceding meeting was dispensed with. 

J. Wayne Hart, Chairman of the County Food Administration, 
presented an outline prepared by City Chemist White, showing the plan 
of organization contemplated by the County Food Administration for 
the purpose of avoiding duplication of work by the various committees. 
This plan, Mr. Hart stated, would require no funds except for clerical 
work, as the actual work of investigation and regulation would be done 
by members of the city sanitary and police forces as heretofore. Mr. 
Hart asked the approval of the Executive Committee and the assurance 
that any expenses which future needs might necessitate would be met 
by the Committee. 

Mayor Davis expressed the belief that this plan would confuse the 
lines of control of city departments, and suggested that all the requests 
of the Food Administration for work or information from City Depart- 
ments be presented directly to himself as Mayor. 

Mr. Otis stated that in his opinion the work contemplated by the 
Food Administration was already being done by the Mayor's Advisory 
War Committee and the city departments. 

Mr. Feiss explained that the Federal appointment of a Food Admin- 
istration had superimposed another organization above the conservation 
committee of the Mayor's Advisory War Committee and had created 
the confusion which Mr. Hart's plan sought to clear up. 

Mr. Mooney suggested that for the present the plan mentioned by 
the Mayor, of having the Food Administration work with the city de- 
partments through the Mayor offered a simple and feasible solution of 
the problem, since the city departments were to do the work in any event. 

On motion of Mr. Adams, Mr. Hart was requested to prepare a 
budget showing just what expenses for clerical and other help he thought 
would be needed, and to meet with the committee again. 

Mr. Feiss presented the following telegram from Mr. Fred C. Croxton, 
Federal Food Administrator for Ohio : 

Rumored committee controversy seems most unfortunate at this 
time. The food administration committee is appointed to administer 
a federal law and, of course, must be responsible to federal authority, 
but this should not interfere with co-operation with all local authori- 
ties. Am sending similar telegram to Dr. Bishop, and am counting 
on you to adjust this matter so that most effective work can be done. 

Captain H. P. Shupe read the following letter which he had received 
from Major General Charles G. Treat: 

I have spent part of two days at the Base Hospital looking into 
conditions, and suggesting and making provision for improved condi- 
tions. I find that the Surgeon has been laboring under great difficul- 
ties, due to the fact that all his detachment were untrained men, 
drafted and brought together from all walks of life, farmers, miners, 
dry goods clerks, and blacksmiths. It is difficult to make these into 
trained hospital attendants without a little time. 

I am happy to assure you that matters are fast getting into shape 
and everybody there is comfortable and in good shape. I have picked 
out four of the best cooks I have in the Division and put them to 
work there. Have given instructions to improvise some covered trays 
with hot bricks in the bottom to keep the food warm in transit to 
the wards. I have sent the Mess Officer, who is in charge of our 
officers' mess here at Headquarters, over to the hospital to lend his 
assistance and also to use a little rolling kitchen to move from ward 
to ward to insure hot meals. I had a very satisfactory interview with 
the Governor and the Committee, headed by Mr. Proctor, who were 
considering ways and means to lend financial assistance in places 
where it was proper and would do the most good. 

I asked them to insure that the public be fully informed that the 

199 



United States made, or would eventually make, every necessary pro- 
vision for the efficient care of its soldiers. That there were times 
when additional emergency funds could be used properly and advan- 
tageously, to ameliorate diflRcult emergency conditions. That I, as 
Division Commander, would be willing to accept and supervise expen- 
ditures of any funds entrusted to my hands from reputable sources. 
That all disbursements and accounting would be made a matter of 
record and open to scrutiny by any and all persons interested. 

I do not approve of indiscriminate solicitation or receipt of funds 
by separate commanders without my sanction, as I deem it of vital 
importance to be in position to know that all disbursements are made 
regularly and for the best interests of the entire Division. 

I can properly use in the emergency such funds as you indicate 
your desire to supply, and in such manner as you may indicate, and 
will keep you informed of the nature of all disbursements made. 

On motion of Mr. Feiss, Mr. Otis was appointed to put the matter 
before Assistant Secretary of War, Benedict Crowell, at Washington. 

On motion of Mr. Otis, seconded by Mr. Greenlund, the sum of 
$3,185 was added to the appropriation for the Sub-Committee on Military 
Affairs, to cover the amount used for the purchase of 2,000 suits of 
pajamas for Cleveland soldiers at Camp Sheridan. 

The Executive Secretary presented the following letter from Major 
General Chas. G. Treat, Commanding Officer at Camp Sheridan : 

Your wonderfully generous action in furnishing two thousand 
Bets of warm pajamas for the young men from Cleveland who have 
no such articles is more than appreciated. Spending money for utili- 
ties of such useful nature is tlie best way to help make the men 
comfortable and happy. 

I will see to it that the issue is made to men from Cleveland, and 
will have them individually receipt for them, so that there can be no 
question of lack of proper distribution. 

and from Brigadier General C. X. Zimerman : 

I want to thank your Board for the interest they have taken in my 
request. Personally, when I think of all the things that could be 
handed the individual soldier, pajamas beats them all. They do a 
soldier just as much good as an extra blanket. 

The Executive Secretary presented a letter from Mr. R. H. Koch, 
complaining that his son, who recently enlisted in the Signal Corps, had 
been compelled to shift for himself in Columbus, sleeping in the boiler 
room and in the lavatory of the Chittenden Hotel for want of proper 
accommodation. The Executive Secretary then read the following report 
on that subject which he had obtained from a newspaper man in Columbus, 
setting forth the actual conditions there : 

Conditions at Columbus Barracks have been unusually bad during 
present influx of recruits incident to new draft regulations. I talked 
with Colonel Johnson, Commander of the post. He very frankly out- 
lined the situation, and convinced me that your Board will_ have to 
get action in Washington in order to correct conditions. Five thou- 
sand soldiers can be comfortably housed at the barracks. The mess 
can't care for more than four thousand. In the space of a few days 
ten thousand recruits were jammed in here. It was a physical impos- 
sibility to care for them properly. Hundreds were housed in Memo- 
rial Hall, Masonic Temple, State House, armories and other lodge 
rooms. Contrary to your information, none were taken to the peni- 
tentiary to sleep. At a tremendous expense the overflow men were fed 
in down town restaurants. On account of the capacity of the plant 
here the new recruits were compelled to wait sometimes for hours 
before they could be taken care of at the receiving station, where all 
must receive their first enlistment papers, but the Oiificers_ worked 
night and day; they did everything in their power to relieve the 
situation. 

No blame can possibly be attached to the barracks. Colonel 
Johnson shows no disposition to censure the new recruits for object- 
ing to conditions. "We did everything possible to relieve the situa- 
tion. We must have co-operation at Washington if the conditions 
are made what they should be." He said the men were shipped out 
of here as quickly as they could be outfitted. Previous orders from 
the War Department, coupled with the railway transportation conges- 
tion, which held up shipments, depleted the supply of uniforms, blan- 
kets and overcoats. This necessitated keeping the men here longer 
than they would have been had there been sufficient supplies. To- 
night there are about seven thousand four hundred men here; nine 
hundred of them are sleeping down town and eating at a big mess 

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in Masonic Temple, the remainder sleep and eat at the barracks. 
The congestion could be entirely cleared up now if it were not for a 
recent order received from Washington ordering Colonel Johnson, 
not permitting him, to ship from here fifteen hundred ordnance 
recruits and 2500 aviation recruits. This is where the War Board can 
help get to Baker in some way and have him permit Johnson to ship 
these men away. Aside from this, the numerous irregular details 
have been cleared up and order has been restored. Johnson says it 
is imperative that the men be removed from here, but he is powerless 
to act. 

There is no record here of the man you mentioned being com- 
pelled to stand out all night. On account of the confusion he may 
have been unable to find the proper man' to assign him to sleeping 
quarters. 

I am sure, however, that everything that was physically pos- 
sible was done for his comfort. The whole proposition was put up 
to me squarely by Colonel Johnson. He asks that his name be 
withheld in any use you may make of this information. I know you 
will respect the confidence. 

On motion of Mr. Feiss, Mr. Otis was appointed the Committee's 
representative to call on Mr. Benedict Crowell, Assistant Secretary of 
"Vyar at Washington, within the next week and put the situation before 
him. 

Mr. Otis introduced the question of organizing a Home Guard. After 
a general discussion the Executive Secretary was instructed to take the 
matter up with Governor Cox when he saw him on the way to Camp 
Sheridan for Christmas. 

Mr. Starr Cadwallader appeared before the committee and requested 
that an additional appropriation of $5,000.00 be made to pay full salaries 
of employees at the central draft organization at Central Armory, ex- 
plaining that the new regulations made no allowance for salaries for a 
central board to act as clearing house for the local boards but made it 
possible to pay full salaries at the various local boards. 

In the discussion that followed Mr. Feiss stated that the committee 
had been spending money for the purpose of creating the right spirit 
among the selective service men and that all this might be wasted, if the 
men were met with evasive or incorrect answers when they came to get 
the necessary information when called to service. 

This seemed to be the opinion of the committee, but it was decided 
on motion of Mr. Greenlund to appropriate at this time only sufficient 
moneys to defray the expenses already incurred from November 20th 
to December 15th and defer final action on this request until the com- 
mittee had made a full investigation as to whether the Government could 
not be persuaded to pay expenses of the central board or clearing house. 

A request from Harold T. Clarke, Chairman of the Sub-Committee on 
Americanization, that Mr. George B. Harris and Doctor E. P. Wiles be 
added to that Sub-Committee was approved. 

The Executive Secretary was authorized to buy four typewriters for 
the use of the general office rather than continue to rent them at $4.00 
per month. 

The meeting was adjourned at 5:50 to meet again Friday, January 
4th, 1918, unless specially called in the meantime. 

SAM B. ANSON, 

Executive Secretary. 



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REPORT OF DISTRIBUTION OF EXPENSE TO DATE 
(Read at Executive Committee Meeting, Dec. 21, 1917) 

Previous Distributions: 

( 1) Executive Committee $ 2,352.07 

( 2) War Garden Committee 4,;'84.2S 

( 3) General Office 6,778.18 

(4) Publicity Committee 1,775.52 

( 5) County Food Commissioner 20,455.84 

( 6) Military Committee 6,903.70 

(7) Women's Committee 1,885.77 

( 8) Americanization 5,916.39 

(9) County Draft Board 4,719.14 

(10) A. P. L 2,019.60 

(11) Food Administration Committee 11,123.18 

Bills Payable 20,258.64 

$ 88,972.28 

DISTRIBUTION OF DECEMBER 15, 1917 
Voucher No. In Favor of — Account Charged Amount 



450 


S. B. Anson 


(1) 


$ 182.50 


437 


Chas. Dehn 


(2) 


100.00 


451 


C. F. Knirk 


(2) 


75.00 


439 


Stratford Press 


(3) 


75.50 


440 


Stratford Press 


(3) 


23.75 


452 


J. C. Marks 


(3) 


50.00 


453 


Laura Rankin 


(3) 


28.33 


455 


H. Blattner 


(3) 


42.50 


458 


A. H. Hood 


(3) 


62.50 


459 


Raymond Porter 


(3) 


37.50 


460 


Margaret Wood 


(3) 


25.00 


461 


E. B. Whiting 


(3) 


32.50 


462 


Marion Lee 


(3) 


15.00 


463 


Helen G. Wood 


(3) 


19.25 


436 


Roy Ransom 


(5) 


22.50 


429 


Military Committee of 


the 






Cleve. Cham, of Com 


. (6) 


15.66 


443 


Cleveland Co. 


(6) 


36.25 


444 


Western News. Union 


(6) 


15.00 


449 


Anna Connors 


(7) 


42.50 


456 


Gertrude A. Wolfe 


(7) 


62.50 


453 


Laura Rankin 


(8) 


14.17 


454 


L. C. Cole 


(8) 


75.00 


457 


Helen Bacon 


(8) 


75.00 


464 


Barbara Hornyak 


(8) 


37.50 


465 


J. Trinastic 


(8) 


40.00 


430 


Erner Electric Co. 


(10) 


1.80 


431 


L. C. Smith Type. Co. 


(10) 


2.25 


432 


Karl Cummer 


(10) 


17.63 


433 


Merchants' Toilet Sup. 


(10) 


4.00 


434 


Cuyahoga Lumber Co. 


(10) 


53.00 


435 


Strong, Carlisle & Ham- 






mond Co. 


(10) 


1.80 


438 


C. A. Cowgill 


(10) 


9.40 


441 


The Brooks Co. 


(10) 


3.93 


442 


The Brooks Co. 


(10) 


18.45 


445 


Ella B. Hiatt 


(10) 


42.50 


446 


C. A. Cowgill 


(10) 


97.50 


447 


Estelle Novak 


(10) 


35.00 


448 


Grace Murphy 


(10) 


37.50 

* 1 ein 1 "7 







Total Distributions to Date $ 90,502.45 



Audited, December 15, 1917, 
sioner of Accounts. 



by C. S. Metcalf, City Commis- 



Voucher No. 
466 
471 
467 
468 
469 
470 
472 



DISTRIBUTION OF DECEMBER 18, 1917 



In Favor of — 
Sam B. Anson 
Yawman & Erbe Co. 
Cleveland Taxicab Co 
Capt. J. A. Stern 
Steiner & Son 
Simon Sign Co. 
Harris Printing Co. 



Account Charged 

(1) 
(3) 
(6) 
(6) 
(6) 
(7) 
(7) 



Amount 
$ 200.00 
1.70 
6.50 
4.20 
3,185.00 
1.50 
IS. 00 



$ 3,438.90 

Total Distributions to Date $ 93,941.35 

Audited, December 18, 1917, by C. S. Metcalf, City Commis- 
sioner of Accounts. 



202 



Special Meeting of the Executive Committee 
December 26, 1917 

A special meeting of the Executive Committee was held in the Mayor's 
office at 12 m. Wednesday, December 26. 

Present: Chairman Herrick, Mayor Davis and Messrs. Feiss, Goff, 
Greenlund, Mooney, Otis and Squire. 

Mr. Herrick stated that the meeting was called to consider the situa- 
tion of the County Food Administration, apropos the resignation of Wayne 
Hart as Chairman, and the appointment by Mr. Croxton of Mayor Davis 
as Chairman of the Committee. 

Mayor Davis said that it was manifestly impossible for him to assume 
the work of this chairmanship personally and expressed the belief that his 
appointment was inspired by the wish to have the Mayor's Advisory War 
Committee suggest a chairman. 

In the discussion which followed it was decided that no recommenda- 
tion should be made by the Mayor's Advisory War Committee as to the 
selection of such a chairman. It was, however, the sense of the Commit- 
tee that the appointment of Dr. R. H. Bishop, Jr., would insure the co- 
operation between the Food Administration and the existing city depart- 
ments which the Mayor's Advisory War Committee considered necessary 
for any constructive work. 

The meeting adjourned at 12:15. 

SAM B. ANSON, Executive Secretary. 



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ITEMIZED EXPENDITURES 

From December 1st to December 31st, Inclusive 

American Protective League: 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

12/10 Western News. Union, 1,000 24-page pamphlets 396 $ 19.00 

L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co., rental 406 3.00 

Cleveland Desk Co., rent of furniture and blocks.. 418 S.80 

Erner Electric Co., lamps and supplies 422 18.08 

The Brooks Co., office supplies 425 166.40 

Cuyahoga Lumber Co., 1 letter file case 428 31.00 

12/15 Erner Electric Co., lamps 430 1.80 

L. C. Smith & Bros. Typewriter Co., ribbons 431 2.25 

R. H. Cummer, expenses of Lieut. Cummer, Opera- 
tives Doyle, Fleharty and Noble to Garrettsville, 

Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 432 17.63 

Merchants' Toilet Supply Co., services from 10/23 

to 11/20 433 4.00 

Cuyahoga Lumber Co., building, erecting and paint- 
ing fence 434 53.00 

Strong, Carlisle & Hammond Co., electric lamps. .. . 435 1.80 

C. A. Cowgill, postage and misc. expense 438 9.40 

The Brooks Co., office supplies 441 3.93 

The Brooks Co., supplies 442 18.45 

Ella B. Hiatt, salary 445 42.50 

C. A. Cowgill, salary 446 97.50 

Estelle Novak, salary 447 35.00 

Grace G. Murphy, salary 448 37.50 

12 /31 Ella B. Hiatt, salary 490 42.50 

Estelle Novak, salary 491 35.00 

Grace G. Murphy, salary 492 37.50 

C. A. Cowgill, salary 493 97.50 

Erner Electric Co., lamps and repairs 510 5.99 

C. A. Cowgill, postage, stamjs, keys and telegrams. 536 18.40 

Wm. Royce, record book 537 3.25 

L. C. Smith & Bros. Co., rental typewriter 538 3.00 

Geo. A. Rutherford Co., supplies, carfare, labor... 539 11.14 

Cleveland W. G. & D. Co., floor wax 540 .65 

The Brooks Co., supplies 541 53.84 



$ 876.81 
Previous Expenditures 1,776.32 



Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive $ 2,653.13 

Appropriated to December 31, inclusive 2,500.00 

Americanisation Committee: 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

12/10 Union Paper & Twine Co., 1,000 envelopes 407 $ 7.70 

Remington Typewriter Co., rental 419 5.00 

Hiles & Coggshall Co., 2 multigraph plates 421 3.75 

12/15 Laura Rankin, salary 453 14.17 

L. C. Cole, salary 454 75.00 

Helen Bacon, salary 457 75.00 

Barbara Hornyak, salary 464 37.50 

Joe Trinastic, salary 465 40.00 

12 /31 Helen Bacon, salary 485 75.00 

Laura Rankin, salary 486 15.00 

Lawrence C. Cole, salary 487 75.00 

Barbara Hornyak, salary 488 37.50 

J. Trinastic, salary 489 40.00 

The Burrows Bros. Co., office shears 515 1.25 

Harold Rausch, salary, teacher in special English 

classes 525 20.25 

Rose Charvat, salary, teacher in special English 

classes 526 9.00 

Ruth Renter, salary, teacher in special English 

classes 527 4.50 

E. S. Miller, salary, teacher in special English 

classes 528 31.50 

L. E. Carter, salary, teacher in special English 

classes 529 30.00 

A. W. Chaloupka, salary, teacher in special English 

classes 530 36.00 

Mrs. Eva Hruby, salary, teacher in special English 

classes 531 18.00 

Anna Rice, salary, teacher in special English classes 532 18.00 
Mrs. Isabelle Sack, salary, teacher in special Eng- 
lish classes 533 4.50 

204 



Hannah Gibbons, salary, teacher in special English 

classes 534 35.00 

John B. Myers, salary, teacher in special English 

classes 535 4.50 

$ 713.12 

Previous Expenditures 5,899.94 

Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive $ 6,613.06 

Appropriated to December 31, inclusive 19,950.00 

Balance in Committee Fund December 31 $ 13,336.94 

County Draft Board: 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. ' Amount 

12/31 W. H. Keeling, salary 495 $ 116.00 

C. Dempster, salary 496 71.00 

G. Phillips, salary 497 61.00 

D. Buss, salary 498 61.00 

J. Conway, salary 499 51.00 

M. Montgomery, salary 500 51.00 

M. Rosenblatt, salary 501 51.00 

A. S. L. Hill, salary 502 51.00 

F. Fedor, salary 503 51.00 

F. Scott, salary 504 21.00 

I. Brick, salary 505 21.00 

M. Mathews, salary 506 21 .00 

$ 627.00 

Previous Expenditures 4,744.65 

Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive $ 5,371.65 

Appropriated to December 31, inclusive 5,627.00 

Balance in Committee Fund December 31 $ 255.35 

County Food Administration (Bishop): 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

12/31 Laura Rankin, salary 486 $ 27.50 

Simon Sign Co., signs 520 6.00 

$ 33.50 

Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive 33.50 

Appropriation to December 31, inclusive 75.00 

Balance in Committee Fund December 31 $ 41.50 

County Food Commissioner (Dunham) : 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

Credits 

12/10 Roy Ramson, auto service 404 $ 28.50 

People's Transfer Co., hauling tractors 410 56.05 

12 /13 Received of William Miller for 50 bushels of seed 

potatoes at $3.00 per bushel $150.00 

12 /IS Roy Ramson, auto service 436 22.50 

12/31 Vincent A. Conkey, Agt., fire insurance on tractors 

and farm implements 516 27.20 

Chas. Dehn, cartage 517 3.00 

Sale seed potatoes 4.00 

Sale seed potatoes 270.00 

12/18 J. L. Stoltz, 7^2 bu. seed potatoes at $3.00 per bu. 22.50 

$446.50 $ 137.25 

Previous Expenditures 12,367.87 

Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive $ 12,505.12 

Credits for December 446.50 

Total to Date $ ^2.058.62 

Appropriated to December 31, inclusive 25,000.00 

Balance in Committee Fund December 31 $ 12,941.38 

Executive Committee : 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. ^'"°"?* 

12 /15 Sam B. Anson, salary 450 $ 182.30 

12 /18 Sam B. Anson, trip to Montgomery 466 ?2oen 

12 /31 Sam B. Anson, salary 473 ^^^-S" 

$ 565.00 



205 



Previous Expenditures $ 2,352.07 

Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive $ 2,917.07 

Food Conservation Commission (North) : 

12/10 The Heiser Co., negatives and prints 398 $ 16.20 

Britton Ptg. Co., composition and proofs on advt. . 399 15.95 

Catholic Universe Pub. Co., 149 in. adv. at 80c 400 119.20 

Italian Pub. Co., ad., "A Spoonful of Sugar" 401 70.00 

H. D. North, express charges 403 1.03 

Fuller & Smith, art work 409 73.37 

Harris Ptg. & Eng. Co., 1,000 letterheads, 100 env. 413 9.75 

Doyle & Waltz Ptg. Co., mailing large posters.... 417 23.19 

12 /18 Harris Ptg. & Eng. Co., printing 472 25.00 

12 /31 Plain Dealer Pub. Co., advertising 518 969.57 

Bryant's Weeklies, advertising 542 120.00 

"Svet" Ptg. & Pub. Co., advertising 543 100.00 

Fowles & Engle, advertising 544 20.00 

National Advertising Co., addressing cards 545 11.25 



$ 1,574.51 
Previous Expenditures 10,794.49 



Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive $ 12,369.00 

Appropriated to December 31, inclusive 15,000.00 



Balance in Committee Fund December 31 $ 2,631.00 

General Office: 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

Credits 

12/10 H. Korman, newspaper subscriptions 393 $ 1.60 

Harris Ptg. & Eng. Co., engraving line on plate.. 413 8.50 

Excelsior Stamp Works, 1 stamp 414 1.80 

Remington Typewriter Co., rental 419 3.00 

Stratford Press Co., proofs of minutes 420 179.25 

Hiles & Coggshall, 25,000 letterheads plain 421 37.50 

Erner Electric Co., lamps and cords 422 9.60 

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., file supplies 423 2.30 

Burrows Bros. Co., supplies 424 1.80 

M. Edelstein, Plain Dealers 426 4.92 

Plain Dealer Pub. Co., advertisement 427 1.80 

12/15 The Stratford Press Co., printing 439 75.50 

The Stratford Press Co., proofs of minutes 440 23.75 

Laura Rankin, salary 453 14.16 

Hazel Blattner, salary 455 42.50 

A. H. Hood, salary 458 62.50 

Raymond Porter, salary 459 37.50 

Margaret A. Wood, salary 460 25.00 

E. B. Whiting, salary 461 32.50 

Marion Lee, salary 462 15.00 

Helen G. Wood, salary 463 19.25 

12/17 From Provost Marshal General 78.00 

12/18 Yawman & Erbe Co., storage cases, buif guides 471 1.70 

12/31 Special services (investigation and report on Co- 
lumbus barracks recruit situation) 494 3.00 

Helen G. Wood, salary 475 50.00 

A. H. Hood, salary 477 62.50 

Margaret A. Wood, salary 478 25.00 

E. B. Whiting, salary 479 32.50 

Marion Lee, salary 480 25.00 

Raymond Porter, salary 481 37.50 

Hazel M. Couch, salary 482 8.25 

Erner Electric Co., lamps 510 4.45 

Cleveland Desk Co., rental of furniture 511 15.00 

May Company, costumers and lamps 512 19.25 

Cancelled 513 

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., folders 514 .55 

Burrows Bros. Co., ink 515 1.00 

Multipost Company, multipost 546 25.00 

Cyril Weisman, salary 547 23.10 

Stratford Press Co., cancelled 439 $ 75.50 

Stratford Press Co., cancelled 440 23.75 

$177.25 $ 933.53 
Previous Expenditures 4,654.01 



Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive $ 5,587.54 

Credits for December 177.25 

Total Expenditures to Date $ 5,410.29 

206 



Military Committee : 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

12/10 East Ohio Gas Co., gas furnished Ninth Battalion, 

Central Armory 394 $ 16.03 

Troop A Riding Academy, electric light 405 8.00 

Col. D. H. Pond, five trips to Chillicothe accom- 
panying trains of Selective Service men 408 32.50 

Cleveland Press, papers 411 12.83 

Cleveland News, papers 412 2.70 

Plain Dealer Pub. Co., papers 427 31.50 

12/15 Military Committee of the Cleveland Chamber of 

Commerce, expenses, trip to Camp Sheiman.... 429 15.66 

The Cleveland Co., papers 443 36.25 

Western Newspaper Union, paper 444 15.00 

12/18 Cleveland Taxicab Co., livery service 467 6.50 

Capt. J. A. Stern, trip to Chillicothe 468 4.20 

Steiner & Son, 166% doz. pajamas 469 3,185.00 

12/31 Plain Dealer Pub. Co., papers and advertising.... 518 54.54 

Cleveland News, papers 519 2.50 



$ 3,423.21 
Previous Expenditures 7,157.88 

Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive $ 10,581.09 

Appropriated to December 31, inclusive 12,449.50 



Balance in Committee Fvmd December 31 $ 1,868.41 

Patriotism Committee : 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

12/10 Kluger Optical Co., 3% yards detail paper 397 $ .50 

Burrows Bros. Co., box thumb tacks 424 .25 

12/15 J. C. Marks, salary 452 50.00 

Laura Rankin, salary 453 14.17 

12 /31 J. C. Marks, salary 476 50.00 

Hazel M. Couch, salary 482 8.25 



$ 123.17 

Previous Expenditures 600.00 

Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive $ 737.17 

Appropriated to December 31, inclusive 300.00 

War Garden Com.mittee : 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

Credits 

12/10 Doyle & Waltz Ptg. Co., 10,000 envelopes. War 

Garden booklets 417 $ 627.40 

Hiles & Coggshall Co., etching and multi plates... 421 2.50 

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., cards 423 6.88 

Burrows Bros. Co., 2 receipt books 424 .40 

Account sale of fertilizer $ 14.00 

Account sale of fertilizer 34.00 

12/15 Chas. Dehn, hauling manure 437 100.00 

Carl F. Knirk, salary 451 75.00 

12 /17 Sale fertilizer 109.00 

Sale fertilizer 29.00 

12/31 Chas. F. Knirk, salary 474 75.00 

Strong's Art Store, frame for map 507 3.94 

Cleveland Union Stockyards Co., manure 508 46.00 

Treasurer, City of Cleveland, delivering fertilizer. 509 78.42 

$186.00 $ 1,015.54 

Previous Expenditures 3,865.07 

Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive 4,880.61 

Credits for December 186.00 

Total to Date $ 4,694.61 

Appropriated to December 31, inclusive 10,000.00 

Balance in Committee Fund December 31 $ 5,305.39 

Women's Committee : 

Date In Favor of — Service Voucher No. Amount 

Credits 

12/10 Superior Advertising Co., 12 slides 395 $ 3.00 

P. A. McHugh, rent, 36 chairs 402 5.00 

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Cleveland Press, advertising 411 19.32 

Cleveland News, display 412 22.33 

Chas. W. Chestnutt, reporting adresses 415 35.00 

12 /lO Halter Sign Co., card signs 416 10.00 

Hiles & Coggshall Co., 500 cards 421 4.40 

Yawman & Erbe Mfg. Co., supplies 423 3.83 

Plain Dealer Pub. Co., cards 427 33.60 

12 /13 Proceeds of lecture $ 89.60 

Proceeds of lecture 1.50 

12 /15 Anna Connors, salary 449 42.50 

Gertrude A. Wolfe, salary 456 62.50 

12/18 Simon Sign Co., sign 470 1.50 

Harris Ptg. & Engr. Co., printing 472 15.00 

12/31 Gertrude A. Wolfe, salary 483 62.50 

Anna Connors, salary 484 42.50 

Union Paper & Twine Co., manila envelopes 521 .80 

Cleveland Women, papers and postage 522 7.00 

Hiles & Coggshall, index cards 523 16.00 

Cleveland Press, advertising 524 9.66 



$ 91.10 $ 396.44 
Previous Expenditures 1,676.94 



Total Expenditures to December 31, inclusive 2,073.38 

Credits for December 91.10 



Total to Date $ 1,982.28 

Appropriated to December 31, inclusive 14,600.00 



Balance in Committee Fund December 31 $ 12,617.72 



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Mayor's Advisory War Committee 
and its Sub-Committees 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

Hon. Myron T. Herrick (Chairman), 720 Cuyahoga Building. 

F. H. Goff (Treasurer), Cleveland Trust Co. 

Warren S. Hayden (Secretary), 706 Citizens Building. 

Sam B. Anson (Executive Secretary), 226 City Hall. 

Hon. Harry L. Davis, Mayor of Cleveland. 

Charles E. Adams, Cleveland Hardware Co. 

Paul L. Feiss, Joseph & Feiss Co. 

Hon. W. A. Greenlund, Greenlund-Kennerdell Co. 

Munson Havens, Secretary Chamber of Commerce. 

Maj. Otto Miller, 706 Citizens Building (In service). 

M. P. Mooney, 813 Society for Savings Building. 

Charles A. Otis, Otis & Co. 

Andrew Squire, 1201 Leader-News Building. 

H; >!5 >|i >(s >)< 

E. H. Baker, Plain Dealer. 

W. Karl Bernreiter, 8719 Quincy Avenue. 

Ben P. Bole, Plain Dealer Building. 

Mrs. E. S. Burke, Magnolia and Mistletoe Drives. 

Edward Bushnell, 709 Society for Savings Building. 

Fred H. Caley, Secretary Cleveland Automobile Club. 

Chas. W. Chesnutt, 1105 Williamson Building. 

Dr. Geo. W. Crile, Osborn Building. 

Vincent Campanella, 12109 Mayfield Road. 

Perry J. Darling, Cleveland Athletic Club. 

Theo. M. Dluzynski, Editor Polonia W. Ameryce. 

F. Philip Dorn, The American Ball Bearing Company. 
Bishop John P. Farrelly, St. John's Cathedral. 

M. F. Fisher, President The Fisher Brothers' Company. 

Chas. Gebauer, Gebauer Chemical Company. 

E. R. Grasselli, Grasselli Chemical Company. 

Edward S. Griffiths, Cleveland Machine & Mfg. Company. 

S. M. Gross, General Superintendent The May Company. 

John Kayganovich Gross, 1405 E. 33rd Street. 

Dr. C. A. Hemann, Osborn Building. 

Frank S. Harmon, The Weideman Company. 

Salem A. Hart, Superintendent Post Office Station B. 

Samuel H. Holding, 1020 Rockefeller Building. 

Paul Howland, 802 Engineers Building. 

Dr. H. C, Kenyon, 730 Rose Building. 

Sherman C. Kingsley, Secretary Welfare Federation of Qeveland. 

A. C. Klumph, President Cuyahoga Lumber Company. 

Theodor Kundtz, The Theodor Kundtz Company. 

W. P. Leech, The Leader and The News. 

August F. Leopold, Leopold Furniture Company. 

Robert E. Lewis, Secretary Young Men's Christian Association. 

H. P. Mcintosh, Jr., Guardian Savings & Trust Company. 

Amasa Stone Mather, Pickands, Mather & Company. 

W. G. Mather, Cleveland Clififs Iron Company. 

Rev. A. B. Meldrum, Old Stone Church. 

A. L. Maresh, Maresh Piano Company. 

Georgia L. Norton, Director Cleveland School of Art. 

Mrs. D. Z. Norton, 7301 Euclid Avenue. 

W. P. Palmer, The American Steel & Wire Company. 

John Pankuch, The Slovak Printing & Publishing Company. 

Mrs. Edna B. Perkins, Chairman Woman Suffrage Party. 

Louis J. Pirc, Editor Clevelandska Amerika. 

W. J. Raddatz, Stratford Press Company. 

Alex Rusynyk, 738 Starkweather Avenue. 

Geo. A. Schneider, Secretary Cleveland Athletic Club. 

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Miss Belle Sherwin, 3328 Euclid Avenue. 

Capt. H. P. Shupe, The Cleveland Laundry Company. 

AUard Smith, The Cleveland Telephone Company. 

F. W. Steffen, Cleveland Typographical Union. 

Mrs. C. B. Tozier, 2062 E. 77th Street. 

Harry L. Vail, 1103 Citizens Building. 

James P. Walsh, Pittsburgh Coal Company. 

Rabbi Louis Wolsey, Euclid Avenue Temple. 

W. C. Wren, Secretary Cleveland Retail Grocers' Association. 



SUB-COMMITTEE ON WAR GARDENS 

Geo. A. Schneider (Chairman), Secretary Cleveland Athletic Club. 

R. C. Wright (Vice-President), 90S East Boulevard. 

Perry J. Darling (Secretary), Cleveland Athletic Club. 

Carl F. Knirk (Director), 1437 Mars Avenue. 

Allen T. Burns, Director Cleveland Foundation. 

Starr Cadwallader, Marshall Building. 

R. H. Cowdery, Advertising Manager American Fork & Hoe Company. 

Mrs. J. N. Fleming. 1821 East 93rd Street. 

C. E. Kendel, 2010 Ontario Street. 

Mrs. E. C. T. Miller, 2728 Euclid Avenue. 

Mrs. Chas. T. Otis, 3436 Euclid Avenue. 

John J. Wood, Burrows Brothers Company. 



SUB-COMMITTEE ON MILITARY AFFAIRS 

Capt. H. P. Shupe (Chairman), Cleveland Laundry Company. 

Parker Hill (Secretary), Chamber of Commerce. 

Capt. Ben P. Bole (in service), Plain Dealer Building. 

Capt. C. C. Bolton, 704 Hickox Building. 

Maj. Paul S. Bond, Federal Building. 

R. J. Bulkley, 703 Cuyahoga Building. 

Dr. F. E. Bunts, 214 Osborn Building. 

I. F. Frieberger, The Cleveland Trust Company. 

H. L. Goff, Goff-Kirby Coal Company. 

T. S. Grasselli, The Grasselli Chemical Company. 

E. B. Greene, The Cleveland Trust Company. 

Col. Dudley J. Hard, Cleveland Light & Power Company (in service). 

L. C. Hanna, Jr., M. A. Hanna & Company. 

J. A. House, Guardian Savings & Trust Company. 

John E. Morley, 1204 Williamson Building (in service). 

Col. J. R. McQuigg, 1611 Williamson Building (in service). 

E. E. Neale, The Neale-Phyphers Company. 

Col. D. H. Pond, Economy Building & Loan Company. 

Capt. Robert L. Queisser, The R. L. Queisser Company. 

George S. Russell, Bank of Commerce, N. A. 

Major Henry W. Stamford, U. S. Army Recruiting Officer. 

Conant Van Blarcom, James L. Stuart Company. 

W. G. Wilson, Aetna Life, Accident & Liability Insurance Company. 

Brig. Gen. C. X. Zimerman, Luna Park (in service). 



AMERICANIZATION 

Harold T. Clark (Chairman), Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. 

Miss Helen Bacon (Secretary), Woman's Club. 

Allen T. Burns, Cleveland Foundation. 

Edward Bushnell, Society for Savings Building. 

A. W. Castle, Assistant Superintendent of Schools. 

Prof. J. E. Cutler, 11311 Hessler Road. 

Otto K. Dorn, 1832 East 6th Street. 

Miss Grace B. Drake, Consumers' League. 

Hugh M. Fullerton, The H. Black Company. 

Edward L. Harris, 6719 Euclid Avenue. 

R. J. Hoddinott, Educational Secretary Y. M. C. A. 

E. A. Hotchkiss, 15420 Clifton Boulevard. 
Ernest Joseph, The Joseph & Feiss Company. 

Rev. Wm. A. Kane, Superintendent Parochial Schools. 
Rev. Hubert J. LeBlond, Director Catholic Charities. 
Judge Manuel Levine, Judge Common Pleas Court. 
Prof. Raymond Moley, 2026 Cornell Road. 
DeLo Mook, Boy Scout Commissioner. 

F. Allen Whiting, Director Museum of Art. 
S. S. Wilson, Willoughby. 

Carl P, P. Vitz, Cleveland Public Library. 

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WOMEN'S AMERICANIZATION COMMITTEE 

Mrs. J. N. Fleming (Chairman), 1821 East 93rd Street. 

Mrs. Frank A. Muhlhauser (Vice-Chairman), 1560 Mistletoe Drive. 

Miss Mary E. Parker (Vice-Chairman), 11 503 Mayfield Road. 

Miss Helen Bacon (Secretary), Woman's Club. 

Miss Edith Glenn, Y. W. C. A. 

Mrs. E. H. Baker, Gates Mill. 

Miss Constance Bell, 2182 East 9th Street. 

Mrs. Morris Black, 1864 East 89th Stdeet. 

Mrs. W. C. Boyle, 430 East 185th Street. 

Mrs. Harold T. Clark, 1899 East 82nd Street. 

Miss Grace Drake, Consumers' League. 

Miss Annie P. Dingman, Public Library. 

Miss Mary Gilson, The Joseph & Feiss Company. 

Mrs. E. B. Haserodt, 1727 East 70th Street. 

Miss Harriet Keeler, 2036 East 100th Street. 

Mrs. E. E. Ledbetter, Broadway Branch Library. 

Mrs. Stella Jacoby, 11324 Hessler Road. 

Mrs. J. W. Mason, 1827 East 79th Street. 

Mrs. Roger G. Perkins, 1481 East Boulevard. 

Mrs. Henry L. Sanford, 12003 Lake Shore Boulevard. 

Mrs. S. S. Safifold, 1841 East 89th Street. 

Miss Sara E. Slawson, 2364 West 14th Street. 

Mrs. L. Ernest Sunderland, 11815 Wade Park Avenue. 

SUB-COMMITTEE ON ENDORSEMENT 

A. D. Baldwin (Chairman), 1029 Garfield Building. 

Sherman C. Kingsley (Recording Secretary), Secretary Cleveland Welfare Council. 

P. W. Harvey (Secretary), 9619 Lake Shore Boulevard. 

E. E. Adams, General Superintendent The Cleveland Hardware Company. 

Edward M. Baker, 1014 Hippodrome Building. 

Allen T. Burns, Cleveland Foundation. 

Thos. Coughlin, Morris Plan Bank. 

A. F. Harvey, Pittsburgh Steamship Company. 

Dr. A. R. Warner, Lakeside Hospital. 

E. M. Williams, The Sherwin-Williams Company. 

SUB-COMMITTEE ON PUBLICITY 

W. J. Raddatz (Chairman), The Stratford Press Company. 

E. A. Smiley (Secretary), Chamber of Commerce. 
Fred R. Fuller, Fuller & Smith. 

L. E. Honeywell, National Acme Manufacturing Company. 
Chas. W. Mears, The Winton Company. 

F. R. Morison, 1216 Citizens Building. 

SUB-COMMITTEE ON PATRIOTISM 

Harry L. Vail (Chairman), 1103 Citizens Building. 

J. C. Marks (Secretary), 226 City Hall. 

C. J. Benkoski, 429 Society for Savings Building. 

W. H. Boyd, nth floor Marshall Building. 

Robt. J. Bulkley, 703 Cuyahoga Building. 

Vincent Campanella, 12109 Mayfield Road. 

Frank J. Fertig, General Fire Extinguisher Company. 

A. J. Hieber, 3143 West 2Sth Street. 

Judge Manuel Levine, Judge Common Pleas Court. 

Col. J. R. McQuigg, 1611 Williamson Building (in service). 

Frank C. Manak, President "Oul" Building & Loan Association, Brecksville, Ohia. 

Alexander H. Martin, 346 Engineers Building. 

John H. Price, 610 Garfield Building. 

SUB-COMMITTEE ON FUEL SUPPLY 

J. P. Walsh (Chairman), Pittsburgh Coal Company. 

Stanley L. McMichael (Secretary), Secretary Cleveland Real Estate Board. 

Charles Albright, Albright Coal Company. 

Mathew Andrews, M. A. Hanna Company. 

R. G. Miller, R. G. Miller & Company. 

H. S. Pickands, Pickands-Mather Company. 

Fred Saal, Pittsburgh Coal Company. 

William Schafer, Schafer-Suhr Coal Company. 

C. E. Sullivan, Glens-Run Coal Company. 

J. H. Woods, Pittsburgh Coal Company. 

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CUYAHOGA COUNTY FOOD ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE 

(Dr. Bishop) 

Harry L. Davis, Room 303 City Hall, Station 1. Res., 4167 E. 97th St. Broadway 707. 

John F. Cunningham, Ohio Farmer, 1011 Oregon Avenue. Prospect 595, Central 
4119-W. Res., 1224 Belle Avenue. Mario 267-J. 

J. W. Hart, International Electrical Brotherhood, 2182 E. 9th St. Main or Central 
2678. Res., 1483 E. 105th St. Garfield 8966-W. 

Adelaide L. Vanduzer, Board of Education, Erie ISO or Main 4823. Res., 1824 E. 
79th St. Rosedale 2S6S-R. 

John A. Zangerle, Court House. Main 4622 or Central 2667. Res., W. 104th St. and 
Lake Ave. Edgewater 3425. 

H. D. North, Ferro Cap & Screw Co., 2151 Scranton Road. Harvard 1947; or Cham- 
ber of Commerce, Main 3300 or Central 1573. Res., 2673 Euclid Blvd. Fair- 
mount 999-J. 

Dr. Bishop, Room 116 City Hall, Station 63 or 64. Res. 2605 Euclid Ave. Pros- 
pact 117. 

Wilbur C. White, City Chemist, City Hall. 

R. C. Roueche, Chief Food Inspector, City Hall. 

SUB-COMMITTEE ON FOOD CONSERVATION (NORTH) 

Executive : 

Harold D. North (Chairman), Munson Havens, George A. Coulton, Tim Thrift, 
Belle Sherwin, Alexander Printz, Alva Bradley, T. C. Wellsted. 

Finance : 

G. A. Coulton (Chairman), Alva Bradley, Howard M. Hanna, Alexander Printz. 

Advertising and Publicity: 

Tim Thrift (Chairman), J. A. Kerr, H. J. Wright. 

Women's Committee : 

Miss Belle Sherwin (Chairman), Mrs. Malcolm L. McBride, Mrs. Julius B. Fryer, 
Mrs. W. B. Laifer. 

Rural Districts: 

R. D. Long (Chairman), L. B. Dunham, A. C. Yawberg, C. R. Perkins, Mrs. O. S. 
Upp. 

Speakers' Committee: 

R. G. Pate — (special speakers). 

J. C. Marks— (Four Minute Men). 

Mrs. E. G. Derr — (Home Sentinels). 

Organizations: 

James H. Thompson — Hotels. 

Garretson Wade and Livingston Mather — Clubs. 

F. E. Spaulding — Schools. 

Edward R. Wright — Churches. 

J. Wayne Hart — Labor Organizations. 

Mrs. E. S. Burke— Red Cross. 

Sub-Committee on Prevention of Waste: 

Frank S. Harmon (Chairman), The Weideman Company. 

George Marshall (Vice-Chairman), The Marshall Drug Company. 

M. F. Fisher, Fisher Brothers Company. 

Mrs. J. N. Fleming, 1821 East 93rd Street. 

Mrs. Moses J. Gries, 10311 Lake Shore Boulevard. 

J. A. House, Guardian Savings & Trust Company. 

B. W. Housum, Housum-Grace Company. 

D. S. Humphrey, Euclid Beach Park. 

Mrs. W. B. Laflfer, 2248 Stillman Road. 

Mrs. Edna B. Perkins, Woman's Suffrage Party. 

Mrs. Nathan Rosewater, 1090 Hotel Statler. 

Mrs. Howard A. Worman, 1596 Robinwood Avenue, Lakewood. 

W. C. Wren, Secretary Cleveland Retail Grocers' Association. 

SUB-COMMITTEE ON WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES 

Miss Belle Sherwin (Chairman), 3328 Euclid Avenue. 

Mrs. Frank Muhlhauser (First Vice-Chairman), 1560 Mistletoe Drive. 

Mrs. J. N. Fleming (Second Vice-Chairman), 1831 East 93rd Street. 

Mrs. D. Z. Norton (Third Vice-Chairman), 7301 Euclid Avenue. 

Mrs. Allen Diemer (Fourth Vice-Chairman), 6407 St. Clair Avenue. 

Mrs. W. A. Fay (Alternate), 2200 Coventry Road. 

Mrs. A. B. Pyke (Secretary), 1185 Andrews Avenue, Lakewood. 

Mrs. Julius Fryer (Treasurer), 1569 East Boulevard. 

Miss Gertrude A. Wolfe (Secretary-in-Charge), 226 City Hall. 

Mrs. Amos Barron, Chairman Automobile Service Section, 1912 East 71st Street. 

Mrs. Alfred Brewster, Chairman Public Health Nursing Section, 8813 Euclid Avenue. 

Mrs. E. S. Burke, Jr., Chairman Red Cross Section, 11125 Magnolia Drive. 

Miss Gladys Burrows, Chairman Navy Auxiliary Red Cross, 1881 East 82nd Street. 

Mrs. A. S. Hobart, Chairman Conservation of Moral Forces, Girls' Bureau, 612 St. 
Clair Avenue. 

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^'^' ^Bo^'levard"'*' ^''^'''"^" American Fund for French Wounded, 11801 Lake Shore 

^'^''' ^efehi°""' ^''^^™^" W'""^" ^"d Children in Industry, Carlton Road, Euclid 

T^ll' Yl ^•r.H?^''; Chairman Food Conservation Section, 2248 Stillman Road 
Mrs. John D Maclennan, Chairman Cleveland War Relief, Lake Shore Boulevard 
Mrs. Orson Upp Chairman Food Production Section, North Olmsted? Ohio '^• 

Mrs' Tohn'w R.A^r rh"^" ^^^S*'"^ ?^""°'?' ^^26 Northfield Avenue. 
m[=; T.iV 1 Q- ^^P^'^''^^F'^'^^^J''ress Committee, 52 Hastings Avenue. 
M ss Helen §'"]"^V^^-^'™^\5'^''^''^*'°o" Section, 3535 Eudid Avenue. 
m]11 5 1 c ,v^' Chai^an Education Section, 10940 Euclid Avenue 

Iv^nuf. """' ^'^'''"""" Maintenance of Existing Social Agencies, 7218 Euclid 

Mr^' wr'w^W^^''r">5'-^^^''''?^i' Nursing Section, 11109 Bellflower Road. 

Mrs' M^nn A^'-'V^^t'™^" ^o^'^y ^"^"^ S^'^*'""' 1956 East 84th Street. 

Mjs. Myron A Wick, Chairman Surgical Dressing Committee, 11120 Magnolia Drive 

Mr's' l'T WnK^r^v; Chairman Civilian Relief Section, 3133 Prospect Avenue ' 

Mrs. L. J. Wolf, Chairman Speakers, 11201 Bellflower Avenue. 

Members-at-Large. 

Mrs. Henry L. Sanford, 11930 Carlton Road 
Mrs. Roger G. Perkins, 1481 East Boulevard. 
Mrs. L. S. Sovi^ers, 7508 Lawnview Avenue 
Mrs. Henry S. Upson, 10908 Magnolia Drive. 

SUB-COMMITTEE OF LABOR EMPLOYERS 

L. H. Kittridge (Chairman), Peerless Motor Car Company. 

Wesley Engelhorn (Secretary), Cleveland Advertising Club 

B. D. Quarrie, American Steel & Wire Company 

Paul L. Feiss, The Joseph & Feiss Company. 

J. J. Stanley, Cleveland Railvi-ay Company. 

E. A. Roberts, Cleveland Builders' Exchange 

Chas. Woodward, 1900 Euclid Avenue. 

SUB-COMMITTEE ON RECREATION FOR TRAINING CAMPS 

Malcolm L. McBride (Chairman), Root & McBride Company 

Allen T. Burns (Secretary), Cleveland Foundation 

Edgar E. Adams, General Superintendent Cleveland Hardware Company. 

Frank E. Abbott, Abbott Realty Company. 

Paul Agoston, Cosmopolitan Editor The Sunday Leader 

George A. Bellamy, Head Resident, Hiram House 

j. W. Barkley, Board of Education 

Mrs. H. P. Bingham, 1955 East 93rd Street. 

Robert Crowell, 804 Guardian Building. 

Prol J. E. Cutler, Western Reserve University 

M. D. Crackel, Secretary West Side Y M C A 

Chas. W. Chesnutt, llOS Williamson Building. 

Mrs. Louise Dunn, Supervisor of Clubs, Public Library 

Miss Mabel Ferris, 10924 Magnolia Drive 

Abram Garfield, 915 Garfield Building. 

Mrs. F. H. Gofl', Treasurer Consumers' League 

Lawrence Hitchcock, Federal Lime & Stone Company. 

Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., M. A. Hanna Company. 

D. S. Humphrey, Euclid Beach Company. 

E. J. Hart, 810 Garfield Building. 

R. Harburger, Cosmopolitan Editor, Plain Dealer. 

Mrs. E. B. Haserodt, 1727 East 70th Street. 

Ernest A. Joseph, The Joseph & Feiss Company. 

Emil Joseph, 1007 Society for Savings Building.' 

Sherman Kingsley. The Welfare Federation of Cleveland 

Rev. M.' H. Lichliter, Pastor Epworth Memorial Church 

T. L. Lewis, Chief Probation Officer Juvenile Court 

Miss Bertelle Lyttle, 1512 East 107th Street. 

S. Livingston Mather, Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company. 

Rev. Francis T. Moran, Pastor St. Patrick's Church. 

Mrs. John E. Newell, West Mentor. 

John G. Owen, Secretary Cleveland Federation of Labor 

?/• \r„^^J.^^^°^' Director Physical Education, Public Schools 

Mrs. W. H. Prescott, 3097 Fairmount Boulevard. 

J. F. Potts, City Commissioner of Recreation. 

Henry S. Sherman, Standard Car Wheel Company. 

George A. Schneider, Secretary Cleveland Athletic Club 

Rev. Minot Simons, Pastor First Unitarian Church. 

Corliss E. Sullivan, Glens Run Coal Company. 

Clayton C. Townes, 1028 Illuminating Building. 

Dr. J. E. Tuckerman, Secretary Academy of Medicine 

Mrs. Harry L. Vail, 8406 Euclid Avenue. 

E. R. Wright, Secretary Federated Churches. 

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SUB-COMMITTEE ON FINANCE 

W. G. Mather (Chairman), Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company. 
Perry J. Darling (Secretary), Cleveland Chapter Red Cross. 

B. F. Bourne, The Bourne-Fuller Company. 
George A. Coulton, Union National Bank. 

J. S. Crider, National Carbon Company. 
H. P. Eells, 1110 Euclid Avenue. 

E. R. Grasselli, Graselli Chemical Company. 
Max S. Hayes, 979 Parkwood Drive. 

Warren S. Hayden, Hayden, Miller & Company. 

Henry Kiefer, The People's Savings Bank Company. 

John A. Kling, Kelley Island Lime & Transport Company. 

Theodor Kundtz, Theodor Kundtz Company. 

W. G. Lee, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. 

H. P. Mcintosh, The Guardian Savings & Trust Company. 

Price McKinney, Corrigan, McKinney & Company. 

Samuel Mather, Pickands, Mather & Company. 

Thomas E. Monks, Cleveland National Bank. 

D. Z. Norton, Norton, Oglebay & Company. 

J. R. Nutt, The Citizens Savings & Trust Company. 
W. P. Palmer, American Steel & Wire Company. 

C. A. Paine, National City Bank. 

F. F. Prentiss, The Cleveland Twist Drill Company. 
John Sherwin, First National Bank. 

O. M. Stafford, Broadway Savings & Trust Company. 
W. H. Stecher, Pearl Street Savings & Trust Company. 
Warren S. Stone, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. 
Col. J. J. Sullivan, Central National Bank. 

E. G. Tillotson, Tillotson & Wolcott Company. 

H. W. S. Wood, United Banking & Savings Company. 



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